Barbican: it’s kind of annoying that the writer didn’t research this and pick a late 1960s development where the flats were purchasable. It would have taken barely ten minutes. It’s the sort of job you could give an intern.
The HK-based mother having input into the Turners’ rearing of the child was also unrealistic (it seems) but again, easily researched. Why not have the London social worker raise concerns if the potential loss of the little girl was the route the writer wanted to take?
I think that Olly Rix is a decent actor who’s received mediocre scripts.
Patrick and Shelagh had insane chemistry when they were falling in love. Couples change, yes, and children and domesticity alter things, but they’ve become soooo twee and sexless.
I don’t mind Patrick (and now Timothy to an extent) mansplaining because that was normal for the time I think. It’s a shame though, that issues around race, single parenthood, disability and homosexuality are often unrealistically modern. They were handled properly in earlier series. I’m not a fan of papering over people’s experiences.
I still like this show (believe it or not!) but it’s deteriorating. I’m wonder whether future series should be prequels.