Decline and Fall

[CeciliaMiddleton]

Anyone excited to watch Decline and Fall tomorrow night? I'm really not a fan of Jack Whitehall but kind of feel convinced by good reviews -- like this one www.culturewhisper.com/r/tv/decline_and_fall_review_bbc2_jack_whitehall/8512

What do you think?

[IvankaTrudeau]

And the two actresses playing the head's daughters are good.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I don't think I've ever seen JW in anything before, so I had no preconceptions. I've read the book several times (and just about everything else Evelyn Waugh wrote too) and I loved this. I wasn't in the least surprised they changed the school from a prep to a school for older boys, and in the present era they really had no choice, I would think, to make Grimes attracted to adult men rather than little boys. I'm looking forward to the next episode a lot.

One of the head's daughters is Asha Greyjoy from Game of Thrones, btw.

[CoolCarrie]

She also played Karen Matthews in The Moorside

[CoolCarrie]

This just gets funny every week and JW & Gemma Whelan are both on Graham Norton tonight!

[LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt]

This was hysterical, particularly the German architect.

[PinkCrystal]

I usually like JW but didn't like this. Dull.

[elephantoverthehill]

Dull? I think it is getting increasingly droll.

[DoNotBlameMeIVotedRemain]

I do love Jack Whitehall anyway but I think this is fantastic. Not an easy book to adapt and I think this is so well done. I think the rest of the cast are amazing too. Eva Longoria is so perfect!

[CoolCarrie]

Well that was good, but bloody hell, the bit with the jail minister was very nasty and shocking
Might have to read the book now

[CaoNiMartacus]

I'm absolutely loving this! It's one of the few Waugh books I haven't read, so I'm coming at it from a clean slate.

The German architect is hilarious. I KNEW he was going to love Paul's "piano playing"

[Hulder]

Hated the book (only read it because DH loves it) and didn't really want to watch. Thought it was brilliant and added some heart that the book doesn't really have.

[Noitsnotteatimeyet]

I thought it was beautifully done - all the better for playing it straight and I thought Jack Whitehall was a revelation - I'd never realised he could actually act before but he was perfect in this

[woodhill]

This was excellent

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I thought it was great. 'Nasty and shocking' was pretty much what kept Waugh going, I'd say. His story Mr Loveday's Little Outing is rather in the same vein and many modern forensic psychiatrists/psychologists would do well to study it.

I've read most of his novels and novellas/short stories, plus biographies and collected letters and diaries. Fascinating person but I think I would have loathed him in person (and he'd have had no time for me, that's for sure ).

Brideshead is the least typical in my view because there isn't nearly as much of the nasty, shocking stuff in it.