Filmography
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the_lady_lilyJonathan Creek, series one
Caught up on this on instaplay while we were on holiday, both of us having missed the original showing of the original series, and the new episodes having brought the fact the series existed back into our minds. It's all pretty entertaining - as G says, it's essentially the same locked room mystery with variants every time, but it doesn't really matter. There's some brilliant dialogue and the script and setting is happy to take the piss virulently out of all sorts of preconceptions and stereotypes - the random hippies and the aged rock star in the fifth episode, for example. It's done cleverly and with a set of interesting conceptions which don't necessarily add up as you're expecting them to (although you do get quite good at guessing, although often incorrectly).
The conceit that Jonathan Creek is a magician's - well, assistant isn't right, but the chap who comes up with the tricks and makes sure they work is a really good one. It allows for an odd-ball nature, and some eccentricity, but not the ego associated with the stage magician (played superbly by Anthony Head, who I am devastated did not continue to play the role in the second series). It also allows for a good deal of technical whizziness, which is quite pleasing and I do enjoy. The characters also spark in interesting ways - not entirely without problematics, but sufficiently so that you laugh far more than you really should. So definitely worth seeing if you missed this the first time around like we managed to do - it's got the sort of daft humour that we like combined with the sort of detective stuff that we like, and that's a jolly good combination for an evening's viewing.
Caught up on this on instaplay while we were on holiday, both of us having missed the original showing of the original series, and the new episodes having brought the fact the series existed back into our minds. It's all pretty entertaining - as G says, it's essentially the same locked room mystery with variants every time, but it doesn't really matter. There's some brilliant dialogue and the script and setting is happy to take the piss virulently out of all sorts of preconceptions and stereotypes - the random hippies and the aged rock star in the fifth episode, for example. It's done cleverly and with a set of interesting conceptions which don't necessarily add up as you're expecting them to (although you do get quite good at guessing, although often incorrectly).
The conceit that Jonathan Creek is a magician's - well, assistant isn't right, but the chap who comes up with the tricks and makes sure they work is a really good one. It allows for an odd-ball nature, and some eccentricity, but not the ego associated with the stage magician (played superbly by Anthony Head, who I am devastated did not continue to play the role in the second series). It also allows for a good deal of technical whizziness, which is quite pleasing and I do enjoy. The characters also spark in interesting ways - not entirely without problematics, but sufficiently so that you laugh far more than you really should. So definitely worth seeing if you missed this the first time around like we managed to do - it's got the sort of daft humour that we like combined with the sort of detective stuff that we like, and that's a jolly good combination for an evening's viewing.
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