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Old 01-20-2024, 10:17 AM   #1342
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Originally Posted by Jordan5 View Post
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...
Brenda is just...it's like when they wanted to replace Mrs McCarthy, they realized that they now needed two actors or actresses.

They'd gimped along without Felicity, (Lady Montague; I refuse to give in to Lady Felicity) via guest appearances and all that for what, 3 seasons? But once Mrs. McCarthy left, she took all the Mrs. McCarthy-ness with her and they needed to build something back in, so they built in the (very slightly smarter) Secretary (?--not really sure WTH she does), for that part and they built in Brenda to be this very ODD character, which is part nag, part "bad girl trying to walk the straight path' and yes, OMG, that accent is abominable. Sure, she could hardly show up with an accent right out of Roedean, Cheltie's or Moreton, but hell...did it have to be that bad? ugh.

Sound taps, I guess, for another one. Sigh.

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