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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh
No need to apologize - my taste in TV shows is offbeat to say the least. But I do have to say that a lot of those women playing the leads in British shows are pretty good (and not just there for their looks!). OTOH I absolutely despised Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect - sleeping and drinking her way to the top with that insipid toss of her hair every 30 seconds - ugh. But I like the women in Happy Valley, Scott & Baily, Miss Fisher, Marcella, The Fall, Hidden, Winter, WPC-56 to name a few.
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I like some of those; I liked Happy Valley. I thought that the actress playing Phryne Fisher would have been fantastic, 10 years earlier. It was pretty hard ot cover up her age; I liked the Fall.
I'm not saying that they lack talented actors; I'm simply saying that the pendulum has swung so far to the other side that now it's
totally unrealistic. I mean, it's not like stuffing TV crime procedural shows full of actresses, rather than men in the roles, will somehow magically change the reality of management, etc., at the cop shops and it ruins the shows for me.
Shrug. And they don't all have to be serious; I like some lightweight cozies, too; but I prefer them to each..I dunno, occupy their own space. Hell, I like the new (for those of us who remember the original) Fr. Brown, and it's hard for ANY mystery to get lighter than that! Any lighter and you'd have to tie the plots to the ground with cast iron weights...
Hitch