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Originally Posted by Hitch
I agree with you, about pretty much everything you said. sigh. I miss Felicity and Mrs. whats-er-name and the chauffeur and even Flambeau. (I was a John Light fan a long time ago--let's face it, he's pretty yummy if men float your boat, but he's awfully short!!!).
And yes, I don't know how they messed up giving the Inspector a love interest. Brenda is simply abominable, but bygod, it's TV and they gotta make SURE that they lecture us weekly. Sigh. (I remember when the one with the priest and the cop--Grantchester, that's it--was good, too [with that very handsome young actor and who was it, Robson Green?] and then it just TANKED. Same drivel.)
Hitch
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My beef with Brenda is not her race (Heh--I'm African-American. And up until S10, FB did extremely well with POC characters and themes about racism.) It's that she has been given no other life except to trail around after FB, get lectured/condescended to by Devine about poise/charm (*snort* Bwahahahahahahahahahahah!
) and generally act OTT for no reason. And saddling the actress with that accent is hardly helping matters. She and Devine represent yet another disastrous S10 problem: the guest casting was goofy at best, horrible at worst. S11 is better, but not nearly up to the show's previous high standards. Ah, well, given the endings of a couple of this season's eps, the show may not get to an S12. Unless TPTB want to sabotage it even worse...