If like me you were on the verge of giving up on this "classic" bubbuh-kuh serial 30 minutes into the first episode and if, unlike me, you actually did give up on it: FEWL.
Things improved considerably after Emily + sis + brat got dispatched to the sticks, with excellent thin-lipped spinsta action from Anna Massey's Aunt Stanbury, a first-class bulge-eyed, simpering clergyman and John Alderton's terrifyingly-whiskered Revd Olliphant.
Personal highlight: shifty, incompetent, incapable-of-using-the-first-person-pronoun private detective Bozzle. Here, in a shabby raincoat, is the BBC's best tv Devil since James Frain's demonic spin doctor in The Project (little clues: Bozzle = contraction of Beelzebub + Devil; Aunt Stanbury making reference to 'the devil' in scenes either side of Bozzle's first appearance).
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Also iii: did anyone see The Bill last night? I haven't seen a decent one in ages, but this episode - set in the nonce wing of a prison was th' shiznit.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
No didn't watch either.
But did get very scared by Courtney Cox's bad cosmetic surgery on new Fiends, that offically makes her look about 500 times older and nastier than she did before it. Ew.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I thought it was a BBC adaptation-by-numbers of a fairly limp novel. There are some cool characters in it, but the central story of a a smuggo couple that aren't as smuggo happy as they thought they were is spectacularly underwhelming.
The actor what plays Louis is quite cute, but the mournful puppy dogg wiv injured paw look is getting boring.
Too late for the You Know You're Getting Old When Thread: I tutted with annoyance when Time Team clashed with Antiques Roadshow recently.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: Also iii: did anyone see The Bill last night?
I never watch the Bill but was flicking around last night and saw the bit where one of the coppers is obviously undercover, unshaven, dirty clothes, and this security guard, or prison warder, yells out, "Eh, it's D.C. Dave in't it? You 'elped our Doris when she had 'er bag stolen."
Excellent. Then I carried on upon my way.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Is Detective Burnside still on it? He was fucking ace.
You're a shlaaaag, an' you're gaain daaaaaan... Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: I thought it was a BBC adaptation-by-numbers of a fairly limp novel.
In fairness, Vogon, you don't actually like anything.
Apart from stupid faerie/barbarian crap with Elfwood-style pointy-ear chicks in fur bikinis wielding ginormous swords that is so obviously a ruse on your part to make the man who ultimately becomes the love of your life hop through all manner of mortifying hoops (the orc convention in Widness; Nine Inch Nails at the Nottingham googoldrome; "elvfven" tattoos on the inside of his eyelids) in order for you to reciprocate -- only, when that blessed day finally arrives and you drop the pretence to deliver the killer punchline, you realise that you have transformed this once-dashing, virile, intelligent strap of man into
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Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
O the humanity. Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
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To all of the above. Didn't see it. Was eating fish and chips and then falling asleep at 8.30.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
That American TV series Quincy about a forensic medical examiner, used to be excellent. He always knew he was right about a murder case and always managed to prove what really happened in the end.
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Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin:
who are you, harlequin? who are you really?
Posted by Keef (Member # 27) on :
Mrs Keef has been watching it and says it's very good. Period dramas don't do it for me though.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
quote:Originally posted by Keef: Mrs Keef has been watching it and says it's very good. Period dramas don't do it for me though.
Watching what, the TV drama Quincy? I suppose you can still see old episodes of it on Sky TV or some other channel. It is hardly a period drama though as it ran well into the eighties.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
O Ben, why the anger?
I generally love all period adaptations, and the last Trollop (The Way We Live Now) on Telly was exce.
I just really don't care what happens to any of those characters, and as such watched Sleepy Hollow on Sunday night instead, even though I've seen it a millyun times.
Please tell me what I'm going to turn this mythical man into, unless it really is a little red crossed box. That would be rubbish.
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