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ScaryMonstersandSuperCreeps · 23/04/2017 20:37

I am a huge fan! DP took me there last year for my birthday and i saw the church and had tea in the lovely tea rooms.
I love the relationship between Geordie and Sidney and Leonard is so funny!

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haveacupoftea · 01/05/2017 05:19

Worryingly I fancy JN much more as the evil psycho in Happy Valley Confused

Could happily see the back of Amanda for good, she does my head in.

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 09:48

I saw this for the first time last night - bank hol 'is there anything on? not really, let's look at this' moment.

It's very - simple, isn't it. A simplified version of crime fiction, that's really about enjoying having a few 'heritage' actors and screen and looking at the vicar's face (and bod). Is that it?

It was obvious from the start who had 'done it' - the one who presented as deeply horrible, immediately. Why was obvious too.

The vicar seemed very much like a present day person saying the lines, conveying present day feelings and attitudes, not like someone making any effort to act a character from that time.

The whole 'can I have an affair that results in re-marriage post-divorce' plot, well duh, you're a vicar. Quite liked the (presumably gay and adoring) curate telling the woman we can all feel but not always act, which she didn't 'get' as coming directly from his pov.

We got to the second ad break, said 'well we know what's happened and who did it, shall we go to bed?', which DP did. I sat it out. Not exactly gripped though!

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 09:50

Sorry, 'actors on screen' not 'and'.

ApplebyFair · 01/05/2017 09:55

lottie I think you will find you missguessed the killer!

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 10:32

No, I watched it to the end.

As I say, 'the one who presented as deeply horrible, immediately'.

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 10:35

The clues were all there. The fixed social attitude - status over content - and willingness to hurt others to maintain that was made very clear. Plus romantic idealisation, in action and attitude.

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 10:43

I'm just curious about the appeal - is it what I suggested above (perfectly fine if that's what you want), or something else?

It struck me as, essentially, the 'Lego Friends' of television crime.

User55 · 01/05/2017 15:58

So don't watch it. Simple.

SapphireStrange · 01/05/2017 16:15

lottie, for me the appeal is:

  • difficult subjects (homophobia, domestic abuse, faith/loss of it, capital punishment) dealt with with a deceptively light touch.
  • Geordie and Sidney's relationship; funny but often moving.
  • the acting generally; the housekeeper and curate especially, I think.
  • the beautiful locations and sets, clothes/hair etc!

I don't mind if the plots are not always hugely complex as the above is what engaged me and keeps me watching.

I think it's interesting that the books it's based on are by the son of the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, and therefore they and the TV show presumably offer at least some insight into that life as it really was (although I'm sure they take dramatic licence!).

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 16:19

I asked a question, by way of trying to understand the appeal. That's ok isn't it? We're to have conversations?

What is the appeal then, if not what I suggested? Is there more to it?

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 16:21

Ha ha, cross posts, thanks SapphireStrange!

SapphireStrange · 01/05/2017 16:26

Sure!

I'm quite defensive about it. I really like it. Smile

User55 · 01/05/2017 16:32

But I don't understand if you say it's boring and you don't get the appeal don't watch it. I don't like things like Game Of Thrones but I wouldn't actively search out a thread to ask what the appeal of watching it is!!

Life would be boring if we all liked the same things!!

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 16:35

Interesting about the author.

I suppose what first viewing suggested to me, was that I'd be willing to bet its audience is 90% female and that it appears to have been made as 'crime fiction for women'; with more emphasis on relationships, less on convoluted crime plots. Plus rather a lot of camera time gazing at the handsome vicar!

Sooo, I'm wondering where people feel it falls on the 'Jane Austen to fluffy chick lit' axis. (While detesting the 'chick lit' label, which could just as well be applied to Austen of course). So clever social commentary, or a bit of fluff with a pretty face?

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 16:38

I didn't say I disliked it User55. I asked 'Is that it?', in both senses (is that what is it and is that all it is), because I'm seeing to understand if there's more to it. SapphireStrange has helpfully explained that there is. Conversation see.

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 16:39

'seeking' not 'seeing'

SapphireStrange · 01/05/2017 16:48

clever social commentary, or a bit of fluff with a pretty face?

A bit of fluff with a pretty face smuggling in some clever social commentary, IMO!

lottiegarbanzo · 01/05/2017 16:50

Ah, ok, thanks Smile

DanyellasDonkey · 01/05/2017 22:14

Well I like it. I don't like watching stuff that taxes my brain too much. Nice locations, a handsome vicar and some good social commentaries of the day,

However, the scene with deeply unattractive Geordie involved in a sex act nearly brought my dinner back up Shock

MorrisZapp · 01/05/2017 23:38

Holy crap, that sex scene! I was unprepared for that. Seemed to come from another programme entirely.

Ok I admit the plots are laughable but I do love this show.

Amanda is ghastly.

Queenofthebrae · 02/05/2017 17:53

No Geordie! That sex scene Shock!

I'm feeling irrationally angry at him, poor Cathy.

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