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Five episodes into ‘Wanderlust’ on BBC TV.
An unhesitating MAJOR recommendation for last night’s Number Five.
A sudden transformation from an entertaining, if tawdry examination of a bourgeois sex comedy/drama bonkfest suddenly transformed.
Most of last night’s episode was simply two immensely talented actors in a potrayal of a Cognitive Emotional Behavioural Therapy session that reaches it’s conclusive end point.
If you’re looking for an absorbing alternative to all that absurd hysterical ‘Bodyguard’ drivel, this is the one. Even if you haven’t watched the rest of the episodes, it stands alone as a powerful piece of dramatic theatre, from just two people sitting in a room, talking.
You might ask, after it finishes, “Is there an item in MY house like ‘A Grief Observed’, and what might it be?
If you watch nothing else this year, watch this.
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Like a longer version of Smith and Jones chats?
I watched the first couple, wont be watching any more.
Rubbish
In what way was it ‘rubbish’ for you?
Poor acting, bad story, lack of continuity and I didn't like how it was filmed.
Rated as poor by me. The wife didn't like it either.
I'm with you, Woppit. Makes me think of a Jonathan Franzen novel (well, one of his good ones). Really well made. Won't watch last night's til the weekend though, telly that good shouldn't be on a Tuesday!
Episode 5 is a severe change of pace and depth. Prepare for contemplation...
I didn't watch last night's episode because it was starting to get a bit dull. Maybe I'll watch it on catch up then!
Mmmm, "powerful", "really well made". But is it a "nice place to be". Like an RS6
My wife can watch any old crap,Big Brother,Towie, etc, but even she couldn't stomach any more of this utter rubbish after watching the first few episodes. What a middle class yawn.
Also, Keeping Faith. All slow motion and moody music pretending to be arty. You could have compressed all the story into one hour. All third division stuff compared to Line of Duty and Peaky Blinders.
Sounds like you objected to it because it’s ‘middle class’? Bit odd...
Shame you gave up on it because episode 5 is a slow intense reveal of what it’s been about all along... Grief, death, mistaken self-blame and the subsequent hollowing-out of that self.
I suppose there would be a problem if you hated the class the characters represented, though, rather than empathising with them as human beings.
Noted, ta.
As I’m sitting stranded on the sofa unable to do much after a really hard physio session I thought I would give this a go
I can imagine that if I was aware of the previous storyline, and was in any way “invested” in the characters and their lives, then this would have been good, but ....
it stands alone as a powerful piece of dramatic theatre
.. sadly, for me at least, it didn’t.
With no idea who was being discussed or why, my mind wandered, I wasn’t held in the drama at all.
The office was unfeasably large. The rug was at least a foot too small and both chairs hung off the sides of it ... etc.
I wouldnt have noticed these things if it was “better” but this possibly/probably due to the lack of plot line knowledge.
Thora Hird in Talking Heads, or the Dot and Ethel episode of Eastenders in the 80’s had me gripped far more than this did.
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