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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.)
Hitch
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It's interesting--Boniface has some of the same character problems as Devine. The show expects us to automatically fall in love with them because they are so gosh-darned adorable and quirky and all-that. There are few things more irritating than writers who insist their characters are instantly awesome instead of consistently proving it.
Heh--I think I know what spoiler you're referring to, though there is so much here to dislike, I might be wrong.
And, yeah, that's as fake and panto-silly as FB's current direction. Ugh.
Sheesh--how hard could it be to give Brenda some interests/inner life of her own? (Apparently almost as hard as giving Sullivan a decent love interest.
) And the fact that Devine is _still_ condescending to her in the guise of giving her advice...
I liked Bunty. She at least had an interesting life outside of FB and brought some smarts and fun to the table. She was a bit full-on, but she had a lot more going for her than Devine or Brenda.