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Originally Posted by Jordan5
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... |
Oh, dear, I watched the first two eppies of Father Brown. It was like a twofer of awfulness.
There's something I can't talk about, it would be spoilers, no matter how clever I am about trying to not let the cat out of the bag, but they've added something that I already dislike and I know I will continue to dislike even MORE.
The Devine/Brenda dynamic is not improved and you're right, Brenda has no...real existence. She's not even a great foil that's an empty shell; she's just...there.
And we got to see Sister B too. GODS, after I suffered through epi 1, I get her in epi 2? For the love of...well, not heaven.
NOT a happy camper. (I never took to Bunty, tbh. Just...couldn't warm up to her. I don't know if that makes me an old stick in the mud or whatever, but I just...she always made my teeth grind a bit.)
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