I dont get it


And I dont like it so am turning off I am usually open minded but the first 10 mins or so have been a random pile of poo

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This went out on Swedish television as well last night, and I quite liked it. I'm not familiar with the material, so I couldn't say if it's a good adaptation, but I'd like to see the rest.

Mrs Mapp reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket.

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Peter

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I believe both Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge were Ladies of Letters on the radio so there is a link here (this was an updated version of the same sort of rivalry). On TV they were Ann Reid and Maureen Lipman.

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I think its not been everyone's cup of tea. Then again neither was the Channel 4 version from 30 years ago.

Its that man again!!

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I have a vague memory of rather enjoying the Channel 4 version, which was why I gave this one a go. But, after half an hour, I decided that life was too short and put something else on... A fab cast and they'd found a gorgeous place to film it. But, it didn't engage me in the slightest.

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it's tolerable but it seems to be more of a case of playing Scales, McEwen and Hawthorne rather than Mapp, Lucia and Pilsen. Mapp's malice is much more overt this time round.

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Yes dear, turn it off...its not for you, Im sure you will find a talent show, soap or reality programme on the other side more suited to your needs.

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Oh my! Sarcasm from a homosexual.


There you go - a perfect reason for me not to read another word you write. Pull yourself together.






I'm the clever one; you're the potato one.

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Indeed, what a pathetic creature and seemingly incapable of cutting wit.

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A travesty. Grotesque. How could they get it so wrong? Poor ol' Fred,
he didn't deserve this.

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I rather liked it, gently funny and entertaining, in an era I like very much - a pleasant way to send a few winter evening hours. I'm going to look for the 1985 adaptation too, as everyone seems to be comparing it to that and many prefer the older one.

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I was born in the early 70's, and I enjoyed it. But that might be because I've grown up on Wodehouse, Agatha Christie and old British movies and TV-shows.

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I think you have to be a Brit over a certain age to "get" this.
Not necessarily. I'm an American, born in the 1960s, and I loved it. Could be partly because I, like the other poster, have read a lot of English writers, but I think it's more about having, or not having, a particular sensibility (and that sensibility isn't solely dependent on age or nationality).

Another way to look at it: A lot of people (from a lot of countries) loved Benny Hill. I wasn't one of them. Some people hated Monty Python (I liked it). And so on and so on -- it's about individual sensibility, I think.

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

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I wasn't expecting much from this, and only started watching as a friend wanted to watch it, but I loved it. I thought Miranda Richardson especially was fantastic. The second episode wasn't quite as good as the other two though.

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Having recently re-watched the much-loved 1980s Mapp & Lucia and having also re-read the novels withing the past few months I have to say this new production was very enjoyable.

A little surprised that Anna Chancellor's accent slipped a little here and there - Lucia is in many ways an abominably twee woman - in fact all the characters (with the exception of Grosvenor, Foljambe and Cadman) are pretty ghastly types, filling in unproductive lives with social bitchery and bridge games - I love them!

Much has been said about Mapp's teeth... they are very much as described by Benson, long and white...

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"Twee" -- perfect! Thank you.

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

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