Oh, yes, it was ace!! I was actually a bit apprehensive about all the previews, etc, because I wasn't sure about the premise, but I actually really enjoyed it. Hooray for all the humour as well!! Things got very angsty last week.
I suppose things had to be angsty last week. That's not really why I didn't like it. I can't quite put my finger on it.
But this week's was a perfect little BH episode in every way - comedy, drama, quirky, real-looking characters. The suburban wife-swapping vampires were just ghastly. Great caricatures. And the stuff with Adam and his parents was touching without being mawkish.
Also, I love George and Nina - and though at times Annie irritated me, I felt at the end of the ep that I understood why she'd been that way.
Yes, George and Nina were definitely back on form! They didn't really get that much to do last week, all told. I have to admit that I'm really not feeling Annie yet this season. Clearly she's supposed to be feeling a bit lost, but her cluelessness isn't managing to charm me - her edge seems to have got lost underneath the nicey-nice.
I think it was the conversation with Mitchell on the pier that made me feel less irritated with her. First, Mitchell pointed out to her what her problem is, and secondly, as you say, it's clear she's lost/traumatised and needs something to distract her from her thoughts, so she's turned Mitchell into a project.
I'm the other way round. Are we getting a tour of Welsh sexual deviancy? I loved the dogging last week with it's layered joke, but going there again so soon seemed cheap. I hope its not going the same way as the third series of Teachers.
Weren't they? I obviously wasn't paying enough attention.
I hope it isn't a theme because it's a bit too easy. I'd have been happier with one or the other, just not both, at least not so close togeother. Nah, I preferred last week by a mile.
And I'm with you in that I found it a bit full-on after the dogging, especially since it's a new turn in the series' focus (which 'happens' to coincide with a move to Wales) and the way the line was made a little blurry between BDSM practice and, well, evil. But they've got my benefit of the doubt for at least another episode.
I thought he had a light one - but then I'm quite suggestible.
I think they're conflating BDSM with horrid, nouveaux riches suburbanites.
Ah, yes, that too! But I suppose I didn't find it particularly well articulated whether George and Nina needed to come and save the day because the vampires were having an orgy, or because they were going to kill somebody at the end of it and pressuring Adam to join in.
Or because the vampires were hideous racists? Okay, I suppose RL practitioners of BDSM probably should be annoyed. Their community has been portrayed as bunch of hypocritical right-wing bigots.
Exactly. I mean, it was all presented as parallel rather than cause/effect - but it would make me more comfortable if they had a bit of sexual deviance from the 'good' characters (rather than random werewolf sex); going way back to George buying the cage, the joke's always been that he is very proper and not into this sort of thing.
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But this week's was a perfect little BH episode in every way - comedy, drama, quirky, real-looking characters. The suburban wife-swapping vampires were just ghastly. Great caricatures. And the stuff with Adam and his parents was touching without being mawkish.
Also, I love George and Nina - and though at times Annie irritated me, I felt at the end of the ep that I understood why she'd been that way.
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I can't wait. Hopefully it'll pop up soon.
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Maybe it's one of the themse of the season? Mind you, neither of those vampire characters were Welsh, and nor was Adam.
I've never seen Teachers so can't comment on that.
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I hope it isn't a theme because it's a bit too easy. I'd have been happier with one or the other, just not both, at least not so close togeother. Nah, I preferred last week by a mile.
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And I'm with you in that I found it a bit full-on after the dogging, especially since it's a new turn in the series' focus (which 'happens' to coincide with a move to Wales) and the way the line was made a little blurry between BDSM practice and, well, evil. But they've got my benefit of the doubt for at least another episode.
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Well, Adam's dad was Welsh. Adam didn't have a Welsh accent, though.
Weirdly, I don't think the show is conflating BDSM with evil so much. I think they're conflating BDSM with horrid, nouveaux riches suburbanites.
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I think they're conflating BDSM with horrid, nouveaux riches suburbanites.
Ah, yes, that too! But I suppose I didn't find it particularly well articulated whether George and Nina needed to come and save the day because the vampires were having an orgy, or because they were going to kill somebody at the end of it and pressuring Adam to join in.
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not quite in the same class, I admit.
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Oh I'll be back, I'm just not looking forward to watching it with my mum (we're having a rewatch)!
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No way I'd watch Misfits or this with my kids.