Lewis

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'twas cack last night, was it not?
So much to cringe about:
The clunky dialogue (according to the credits, Alan Plater wrote it )
Rebecca Front can't act
Ridiculous Geordie hacker character (what's the betting they asked Jimmy Nail first)
Those 80s-style Sloaney studes with their champagne/punting
Who on earth would like to stay in that malmaison? It looked hideous.
I liked the pilot and 1st episode, but oh dear, this was dreadful.

How did Kevin Whateley manage to keep a straight face when he said 'I'm not a professional northerner'?

Gina McKee did it, didn't she?

No, it was the rugby player

Aha. GMcK was a very merry widow. Boozy lunch with Lewis moments after her husband's brutal murder... What did she say, in order to engineer it?
'Gosh I am hungry, is that terrible of me?'
Did they snog?

Gawd yes. I went to bed to read the paper after half an hour. The acting was TERRIBLE. Lol, I thought of Jimmy Nail too.
Kevin Whateley can be good but the grumoy persona doesn't ring true. How many times do we have to hear about his 'wife' dying....

I like Kevin Whately but last night's episode seemed to be trying too hard to please the American audience's stereotypical images of Oxford.

Yes it's beautiful, but we don't need endless shots of gleaming spires and hooray henrys and henriettas punting.

ALso thought of Jimmy Nail

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I agree the sloaney types do exist, but there are other types as well.

Jimmy Nail would have been substantially better than that portly, pink Michael Ball-a-like.
There was a nasty shot up his nose when he was in the mortuary.
Something not quite right abuot his eyebrows also.

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lol Pruni.
The one thing that held my interest was Gina McKee's eyeshadow. Kind of pinkish-grey. Blended in up to her browbone. Wish I could do it like that.
Amazing how it held fast even in depths of bereavement.

It's funny how there's never any mention, in Lewis's Oxford, of Park and Ride

We were freaked out by how busy Oxford is the first time we visited. The street shots in Morse years ago must have been shot at 4am. Tis a lovely place. I like Lewis's sidekick, though agree the rest was pretty lazy and cack.

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Sidekick is a theatrical Fox is he not?
I fancied him in the pilot -- what was I on?

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I read somewhere (probably not the LRB) that he is going out with Billie Piper

I avoided it last night, mainly because last week's episode was so bad.

The one off was very good though.

I love Morse, the books, the programme (quite different) - and cried during the final episode.

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Can we set up a Morse Appreciation Society?

Did anyone give Lewis another shot last night?

Generally splendid, I thought

Oh I enjoyed it very much, and somehow have developed a raging crush on Hathaway, lovely posh blonde totty

I enjoyed the first 40 mins, before I got too tired. When DH came to bed I asked if anyone else had been killed and he said yes but he didn't know who.

Can someone please fill me in as to who dunnit etc? (Got as far as learning that the two couples had swapped partners.)

The dying don plot was great
I liked the way Hathaway kept crossly shushing the girls during James Wilby's confession, instead of hurrying them out of the room