The Larkins
Posted: October 13th, 2021, 6:10 pm
What a travesty!
Was there anything good about it, or was it simply an excuse to exercise the company's Woke credentials?
The acting was rubbish, one was totally aware that this was a bunch of shamateurs just saying the words, it was impossible to suspend one's belief that these were characters in a story. Bradley Walsh (more orange than Trump) played Bradley Walsh with the same verve and interchangeability as he exhibited in Doctor Who.
Then there were all the inaccuracies:
An MGA a 'girlie;s car', in 1958?
Offering the owner £250 (new it cost £844) for a bend in the bonnet (a new on cost £20, the garage might have charged one day of labour (£1.50) as wages were around £12 a week for full time manual workers.
The 'evil' property developer turns up in 1958 in a car (triumph Herald) not sold until 1959 and offers two to three times what the target property was worth. Obviously an offer to turn down.
A retired 'Colonel' in the Ghurkas who was Nepalese (even today only two Nepalis have been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel)?
A female of indeterminate race (she's meant to be the Colonel's sister, therefore Nepalese) as the schoolteacher, but peculiarly inept.
A cheery British Caribbean in the pub, used as an example of love at first sight.
Not entirely impossible in 1958, when one non indigenous person was rare, but to all end up looking reasonably prosperous, in a small village in the poorest county in Britain? Clearly an opportunity to exercise #diversity and qualify for next year's Baftas.
To demonstrate woke credentials an excuse was found to lecture the young male children in the etiquette of meeting girls. Gently, with kindness, quiet words and deportment. Don't scare them. Meantime their elder sister is demonstrating female independence by attacking someone who has kissed her sister with a length of 2 by 4 to the back of the head.
Obviously the lesson was only meant to apply to young men.
Still I guess being hit by tub thumping propaganda, badly acted but keeping members of the acting brotherhood in work, qualifies as entertainment today. At least it didn't have canned laughter but by being turned int a sort of soap expect assorted murders, a plane crash, train derailments and the revelation that Mariette isn't going to marry "Charlie" but instead will come out as a member of LBGTQ++, marry the barmaid but live in a maison a quartre, with a king size bed and Primrose in the flat downstairs for a bit of incest when the ratings fall.
Was there anything good about it, or was it simply an excuse to exercise the company's Woke credentials?
The acting was rubbish, one was totally aware that this was a bunch of shamateurs just saying the words, it was impossible to suspend one's belief that these were characters in a story. Bradley Walsh (more orange than Trump) played Bradley Walsh with the same verve and interchangeability as he exhibited in Doctor Who.
Then there were all the inaccuracies:
An MGA a 'girlie;s car', in 1958?
Offering the owner £250 (new it cost £844) for a bend in the bonnet (a new on cost £20, the garage might have charged one day of labour (£1.50) as wages were around £12 a week for full time manual workers.
The 'evil' property developer turns up in 1958 in a car (triumph Herald) not sold until 1959 and offers two to three times what the target property was worth. Obviously an offer to turn down.
A retired 'Colonel' in the Ghurkas who was Nepalese (even today only two Nepalis have been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel)?
A female of indeterminate race (she's meant to be the Colonel's sister, therefore Nepalese) as the schoolteacher, but peculiarly inept.
A cheery British Caribbean in the pub, used as an example of love at first sight.
Not entirely impossible in 1958, when one non indigenous person was rare, but to all end up looking reasonably prosperous, in a small village in the poorest county in Britain? Clearly an opportunity to exercise #diversity and qualify for next year's Baftas.
To demonstrate woke credentials an excuse was found to lecture the young male children in the etiquette of meeting girls. Gently, with kindness, quiet words and deportment. Don't scare them. Meantime their elder sister is demonstrating female independence by attacking someone who has kissed her sister with a length of 2 by 4 to the back of the head.
Obviously the lesson was only meant to apply to young men.
Still I guess being hit by tub thumping propaganda, badly acted but keeping members of the acting brotherhood in work, qualifies as entertainment today. At least it didn't have canned laughter but by being turned int a sort of soap expect assorted murders, a plane crash, train derailments and the revelation that Mariette isn't going to marry "Charlie" but instead will come out as a member of LBGTQ++, marry the barmaid but live in a maison a quartre, with a king size bed and Primrose in the flat downstairs for a bit of incest when the ratings fall.
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