17 April 2014

Jack Irish: Dead Point (ABC1, 2014)

2012's Jack Irish instalments, Bad Debts and Black Tide were very pleasant, staunchly Ozzie, and surprisingly intelligent telemovies that I enjoyed so much I even considered buying the DVDs (the moment passed). They were good: casting, acting, directing, writing — they were all the shit, man, and when wiki said there were more to come, anticipation was high.

And then Dead Point arrived this month and boy did it suck: blegh acting, stale plotting, plodding dialogue, a snail-like pacing. The Better Half looked at me balefully afterwards and I'm like, Hey, I'm as disappointed as much as you, yo.

What the heck happened?

02 April 2014

Death Comes to Pemberley (BBC, 2013)

Not my cuppa, really, but hey — Anna Maxwell Martin from The Bletchley Circle is in it. Ooh, and Matthew Rhys from The Americans.

And buckets of wonderfully English faces, almost all of them familiar but according to IMDb this is the first time I've seen them.

Oh yes, and horses for the wife. And dresses. And period interior design.

An entertaining three hours in Austen-land.