MotherFatherB*llocks
Roy
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Anybody else bailed out of this series, or had the wit not to start watching it at all?
I suppose we should have been alerted by it being on BBC2, despite the presence of megastar Richard “Pretty Woman” Gere.
But it’s all over the place, in both tone and execution; the dialogue is awful, stilted and not how people speak at all, and it manages simultaneously not to seem to know where it’s going, and yet be telegraphing its ending.
I guess it knows where it’s going, but doesn’t seem to have much idea how to get there.
So; some programmes go nowhere fast, but this one is going nowhere interminably slowly.
Enough! And back to Norskov, an unexpected gem from Walter Presents.
I suppose we should have been alerted by it being on BBC2, despite the presence of megastar Richard “Pretty Woman” Gere.
But it’s all over the place, in both tone and execution; the dialogue is awful, stilted and not how people speak at all, and it manages simultaneously not to seem to know where it’s going, and yet be telegraphing its ending.
I guess it knows where it’s going, but doesn’t seem to have much idea how to get there.
So; some programmes go nowhere fast, but this one is going nowhere interminably slowly.
Enough! And back to Norskov, an unexpected gem from Walter Presents.
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
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Maybe watching the first 7 episodes over 2 days helped, and last nights episode leaves it open for a second series.
But David Butcher, writing in the Radio Times, nails it for me:-
I might be tempted to put ‘in’ before ‘glorious’, though
Once you grasp that it’s Blade Runner without the CGI, sort of, you can watch it for what it is.
Like MotherFatherSon, it’s boll*cks, but it’s exciting boll*cks
To be super-precise, it ought to be ‘à chacun son goût’, but it got batted off course by Strauss
Is WWW the only TLA that is longer to say than what it stands for?