TV watching
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shallownessSo, having come to the end of a few series (I will get back to the fourth series of Miss Scarlet eventually), time to watch some new shows. The first being:
Film Club - 1.1
I very nearly started watching the next episode straight after, so I’m clearly hooked. This romantic sitcom’s premise was set up, the main characters introduced, along with the main plotlines, and it entertained. I love that it celebrates girl film geekdom (as someone who slightly regrets missing out on Spaced.)
Evie and Noa are best friends, Friday night is their established film club night – with at least one other long-standing friend dropping in. Not only do they watch a film, but they dress up for it and Evie prepares the garage so it resembles the set, and one of their rituals is that they take a Polaroid (so retro it’s fashionable again) of every time. This week, they were watching Alien for the third time together.
The big hook is whether they’re just friends. Although Evie has a good-natured boyfriend, who isn’t part of film club, and she’s pushing Noa towards a colleague (who didn’t seem that compatible with him), there was definite yearning. Nabhaan Rizwan, playing Noa, is beautiful, (I don’t think I’ve seen anything he’s been in before) although Noa is wrong in thinking that jacket, tie and shirt he wore at work went together. Having said that, this is the first time I’ve seen Aimee Lou Wood act, and all power to her elbow, big-eyed Evie is sympathetic and Wood is clearly leveraging her status, this being her second sitcom on the Beeb, only she had a co-creator and co-write cred on this one, but, yeah, her front teeth are prominent.
It emerges that Evie can’t leave the grounds of the house for reasons of mental ill health. It was suggested that this was because she was involved in a cult that she left six months ago. Noa is a bit of a hypochondriac, but also has just got a job away, in Bristol. Once he shared this with Evie, they both pretended things were All Right and fooled no-one, including Suze, Evie’s mother, who is a bit much if well-meaning (played by Suranne Jones). Evie’s sister also added some balance, and while I have seen neither Kramer vs Kramer or Alien, I did get some of the references. It’s not entirely naturalistic, what with Evie’s fantasy sequence about going to the corner shop in a space suit with some of Ripley’s bravado, and sometimes it was too broad broad, but I look forward to the next episode.
I intended to watch Eurovision, but when it came to it, I was too tired for the marathon. Am relieved by the result.
Film Club - 1.1
I very nearly started watching the next episode straight after, so I’m clearly hooked. This romantic sitcom’s premise was set up, the main characters introduced, along with the main plotlines, and it entertained. I love that it celebrates girl film geekdom (as someone who slightly regrets missing out on Spaced.)
Evie and Noa are best friends, Friday night is their established film club night – with at least one other long-standing friend dropping in. Not only do they watch a film, but they dress up for it and Evie prepares the garage so it resembles the set, and one of their rituals is that they take a Polaroid (so retro it’s fashionable again) of every time. This week, they were watching Alien for the third time together.
The big hook is whether they’re just friends. Although Evie has a good-natured boyfriend, who isn’t part of film club, and she’s pushing Noa towards a colleague (who didn’t seem that compatible with him), there was definite yearning. Nabhaan Rizwan, playing Noa, is beautiful, (I don’t think I’ve seen anything he’s been in before) although Noa is wrong in thinking that jacket, tie and shirt he wore at work went together. Having said that, this is the first time I’ve seen Aimee Lou Wood act, and all power to her elbow, big-eyed Evie is sympathetic and Wood is clearly leveraging her status, this being her second sitcom on the Beeb, only she had a co-creator and co-write cred on this one, but, yeah, her front teeth are prominent.
It emerges that Evie can’t leave the grounds of the house for reasons of mental ill health. It was suggested that this was because she was involved in a cult that she left six months ago. Noa is a bit of a hypochondriac, but also has just got a job away, in Bristol. Once he shared this with Evie, they both pretended things were All Right and fooled no-one, including Suze, Evie’s mother, who is a bit much if well-meaning (played by Suranne Jones). Evie’s sister also added some balance, and while I have seen neither Kramer vs Kramer or Alien, I did get some of the references. It’s not entirely naturalistic, what with Evie’s fantasy sequence about going to the corner shop in a space suit with some of Ripley’s bravado, and sometimes it was too broad broad, but I look forward to the next episode.
I intended to watch Eurovision, but when it came to it, I was too tired for the marathon. Am relieved by the result.
