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How in The Holy Hell of Cotswold....

posted 8 years ago by free-79433
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did they mess this up so much? I LOVE Ashley Jensen (esp. in Extras), love the books, love best the great Penelope Keith radio dramas, love the ACTUAL STORIES AS THEY ARE, but this juvenile, silly, trying-to-be-clever-and-fast version is terrible--I'm enjoying it for lightness, but wincing all the time. Everyone is ten years younger or more (as they did with the also-poorly-done, failed, Louise Penny Gamache series), the tone is off (where's the biting sarcasm, NOT delivered with the quirky, cutesy music, eye-wink attitude), and the class? And PC-ing it up with a black and Asian detective/police force, an unrealistic, plucky, "women can do anything and not fail" female lead, is just too sad. When agenda takes over Art, all is lost.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (2212087) 8 years ago

Bill is probably physically closest to his description in the books.

The little girl is just some random cliche thrown in.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 7 years ago

I would have liked to seen this if, they had made this before.

[–] free-79433 7 years ago

What do you mean? No idea.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 7 years ago

Someone had mentioned Penelope Keith doing this on radio. I thought I'd like to have seen it, if it had been on with her playing Agatha Raisin, you know, like with all the variations of Miss Marple.

[–] free-79433 7 years ago

Ah yes! I have those on mp3 (so audio, NOT video--you said "to have seen it" but these are audio), and they are nothing short of fantastic. Let me know if you want a disc of them--9 separate books, an hour a piece. Also her Hidden Villages 1-3 DVDs are amazingly good. I have all of her series on DVD, even the rare ones.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 7 years ago

Actually, I said , I would have liked to have seen Penelope Keith's portrayal, only if it had been on video. Hidden Villages on DVD, is that the author of the Agatha Raisin books, or Penelope Keith's?

[–] free-79433 7 years ago

Ah, yes! I would have LOVED to see PK do those in shows! HV is non fiction PK travel show, look it up on amazon UK. 11 episodes, wonderful.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 7 years ago

Even though I'm not in the U.K. will look it up.

[–] free-79433 7 years ago

Their blurbs are always better and more copious that imdb's.