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| | | Stuck review – you'll want to smash your face into Dylan Moran's delicious sitcom like it's cake | | by Lucy Mangan Sep 26, 2022 | | This sitcom about a long-term relationship is vintage Moran, and unerringly captures the compromise needed to survive coupledom. I’ve never felt so seen As we all know, romantic tales generally end with the wedding. And, as we all know equally well – or at least those who are married do – there are reasons for that. Dylan Moran’s new creation, Stuck (BBC Two), deftly illustrates them all in five short episodes (a quarter of an hour or so each) about the daily lives of Dan (Moran) and Carla (Morgana Robinson). They are not technically married but have been together long enough to amount to the same thing. He is decidedly middle-aged (“Oh my God!” Carla gasps at one point as she grabs his head. “I’m holding something that was alive in the 70s. Were there dragons?” and his moobs are a matter of horrified fascination to them both), she is – crucially – about a decade younger. She has a zest for life, partly down to age, partly down to temperament. She would like to move to a nicer place – he probably would too, but the flat’s worth nothing – and maybe have a baby, or at least a cat, and is doing well at work. He, by the end of the first outing, has been fired from his job at an ad agency where he appears to have been so dissatisfied that this does not come as a surprise to anyone. “Don’t worry,” he tells her when he breaks the news. “You’ll take care of us.” Continue reading... | | | | | Inside Man review – Stanley Tucci goes full Hannibal Lecter in rollicking death row drama | | by Lucy Mangan Sep 26, 2022 | | Tucci is a smug prisoner; David Tennant is a sweet vicar with a secret. Their tales come together confidently in this funny and typically meaty mystery from Steven Moffat I wonder how Anthony Hopkins feels about being a serial killer, not just for an age but, the way things are shaping up, for all time? It is 31 years since he gave us his Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs – since he sucked his teeth and looked down the lens straight into our livers and spoke in the light, Larry Hagmanish drawl that made everything he said 300 times more gruesome. He remains the nonpareil and it is hard to come out from under his boiler-suited shadow. In the new Steven Moffat drama Inside Man (BBC One), Stanley Tucci is burdened by many parallels with the great man/awful character. He plays Jefferson Grieff, a softly spoken, highly intelligent prisoner, on death row for murdering his wife. People come to him for insight into their stalled cases and he enjoys toying with them until he deigns to provide his unsettled visitors with solutions to their problems. The latter are deduced in a manner that can only be described with reference to another great man/awful character, Sherlock Holmes, whom Moffat himself resurrected in a way that will probably prove as hard to beat for the next few generations. Tucci works hard to make him his own man, but it is elsewhere that the real innovation lies. Continue reading... | | | | | Meghan, Meghan, Camilla, and Meghan again: what to expect from this year's royal books | | by Martin Belam Sep 26, 2022 | | The authors of all three titles due out soon are following the maxim that no one ever failed to sell books by writing disparagingly about the Duchess of Sussex In the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, media reports have been full of a slew of details from behind the scenes as three new books about the royal family arrive in short succession. Seemingly following the maxim that nobody ever failed to sell books to the British public by writing disparagingly about Meghan, many of the supposed revelations revolve around the royal family’s relationship with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and its apparent breakdown. Here are some of the key revelations and allegations – many of which come from “anonymous sources” working within the Windsor household. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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