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Post by MagdaFR on May 21, 2018 1:20:17 GMT
I'm going to watch the first episode. There are raves on twitter on the series written by Russell T Davies, directed by Stephen Frears and with Hugh Grant who is phenomenal according to everybody. The Telegraph 5/5
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Post by ellie on May 21, 2018 2:43:57 GMT
It was terrific. Hugh Grant is becoming a really great actor now that he’s moved on to character roles. His floppy haired posh boy leading man phase never showed what he was capable of given a role that stretched him.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 21, 2018 11:40:01 GMT
He was brilliant before fame. He was typecast ifor years in certain kind of movies after Four Weddings and a Funeral and people become cynic about him after his scandal with the prostitute but he is very talented.
I read a tweet yesterday by someone saying it was a great antidote to Patrick Melrose. He thought both were great and beautifully done but PM was harrowing meanwhile this was very enjoyable. I thought: How? Is it about a man trying to kill his gay lover?! But yes, PM’s theme is even much more harrowing! So yes, I kind of understand what he was saying!
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Post by MagdaFR on May 21, 2018 12:35:19 GMT
He was typecast for years in certain kind of movies. Totally. I read a tweet yesterday by someone saying it was a great antidote to Patrick Melrose. He thought both were great and beautifully done but PM was harrowing meanwhile this was very enjoyable. I thought: How? Is it about a man trying to kill his gay lover?! But yes, PM’s theme is even much more harrowing! So yes, I kind of understand what he was saying! I found this first episode very disturbing. I just don't get if Ben Whishaw's character was just naive, with serious mental problems or he knew in what he was getting when he went to meet Thorpe. The sex scene! Ben Whishaw looks so young when they met for the first time. He's also very slim. And wonderful.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 21, 2018 13:55:32 GMT
I didn't watched it but yes, it doesn't sounds like an "enjoyable" TV show. I'm sure it's not so harrowing as Patrick Melrose but it should be challenging too.
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Post by ellie on May 21, 2018 18:50:11 GMT
I’m recording PM so I can watch it all at once. So I watched “A Very British Scandal” last night and found it terrific but definitely harrowing in parts. Ben Wishaw does look rather gorgeous in it though. 😊
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Post by MagdaFR on May 21, 2018 19:24:06 GMT
Here. Too cute.
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Post by dreamsincolour on May 22, 2018 1:49:00 GMT
I thought this was very good too! And yes, Magda, Norman Scott had mental issues of some kind. He had at least one breakdown too. I remember the real life scandal as it was played out on television at the time, and Norman Scott was always pretty obviously not entirely the full ticket. It worked against him. If he hadn't been a little off the wall, he'd have probably been paid off and everything hushed up and that would have been the end of the affair (in more ways than the one, lol) and there would have been no story to tell because the public would never have got to know anything about it.
He was attractive and very popular, Jeremy Thorpe, so I think it's highly unlikely he only ever had the one lover, but I don't think any others have ever come forward publicly (I'm not sure). Yet assuming how the start of the affair was depicted was true to life, then in more modern parlance he had to have been a bit of a predator. And the whole issue has to now be seen in the light of much more recent knowledge of the despicable paedophile ring that operated later, and possibly at the time, notably including the now infamous Cyril Smith (another top Liberal MP). I'm not sure to what extent Jeremy Thorpe was investigated re that, but NS was only 20 when he first went to the police, so he obviously preferred them young, even if not necessarily "children" by today's laws. At the time, though, not only was all homosexuality still illegal but as he was under 21, his relations with NS were still statutory rape.
I remember thinking how incredibly unattractive Norman Scott was at the time, but it was all kept hushed up for years. !8 years I think it was. And one never saw the boy that Norman Scott had been. I've only just realised now young they both were in real life at the time. Jeremy Thorpe was only about 30/31. But he had the benefit of about 11 years and a lot of experience over a vulnerable stable boy.
I'm looking forward to the next installment.
And it'll be interesting to see how awards fall in due course when both series are getting huge acclaim
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Post by sgev1977 on May 22, 2018 1:58:33 GMT
About the awards: It seems to me that BAFTA prefers sordid things so I guess BC has a slightly adventage over Hugh Grant but they don’t like popular posh actors so probably will win a third actor! 😉 Anyway, good for Grant and lovely tweet by Rupert Graves:
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Post by ellie on May 25, 2018 18:09:20 GMT
Looking forward to the second episode of this on Sunday. Meanwhile I watched Paddington 2 during the week. Ben Whishaw is terrific as Paddington (well, as Paddington’s voice) and Hugh Grant was hilarious as the villain. Seeing them together again in something so different and so much darker just makes me more impressed with both of them as actors.
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