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| JULY After a long absence I return. Sorry, I was away for all the telly this year. We're left with the dregs of summer led by the latest from Scuderia Who: Sherlock. This is no Jeckyl (Moffat's previous modernization), which you will recall was quite good and inventive. This is more flawed than that (and that starred James Nesbitt). It's ok though; an acceptable adaptation with some nice gimmicks (on-screen txting is ok, as was the chase sequence, though Moffat's favourite chugga-chugga POV device has been laboured since he first pulled it out of the drawer). The story creaked somewhat: the "Rache" reversal of A Study in Scarlet didn't work, and the police press-conference was dreadful. Still, as an expositionary episode it was more than adequate and promised a modest amount (though the introduction of Moriarty so early on is a cliché too many, I feel). Mark Gatiss did an entertaining Peter Mandelson, but viewer be warned: Moffat wrote this first episode, the next is by a comparative unknown, and the third is by Gatiss (who you will recall has been more than a little annoying of late with his work for Doctor Who). So, let us wait and see, but let us also breathe. Overseas, and a superior work came to an end this month: Dollhouse could not hope to conclude in quite the same amazing way as the first series ended, but it wrapped up the package as tidily as possible. It must be said that the tidy end was also a little corny, but it was an end nonetheless in a storyline that seemed scarcely to allow for one. A third series set in the future may have been a luxury, but it would've been an unnecessary one and would've broken the symmetry of the overall opus. At two series it was perfectly formed; rather two series and a clear end than a rambling mess hastily concluded (or half a series left hanging - Firefly is next on my list of things to seek out). At the other extreme, South Park reached its 200th episode and celebrated with a star-studded double-ep featuring (a heavily censored) Mohammed. The second part took the censorship gag to extremes, complete with a comically bleeped moral from Kyle (we are told that the bleeping was courtesy of Comedy Central (even the channel admit this) in which case they're responsible for a good point's worth of South Park's haul this month as it was one of the funniest jokes in the episode). Streisand was particularly well done this time round. In other news, watching the BBC's excellent Democracy Live website, it looks to me like Vince Cable is set to crack soon. Shame it's the summer recess, but now at least I am back to fill some of the gap. |
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