david-4672
Joined Dec 2007
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I am pleasantly entertained by the comic police investigations by Humphrey and his police team.
However I find myself reaching for my phone every time Martha gets a scene. She is a potentially charming character, but she has somehow been burderned by BBC script writers who scrape the barrel for woeful daytime soap plots.
I cannot guess why the BBC has tried to mix overwrought histrionics with the otherwise comic and light theme of the detective work. This strange conflation of genres rather emphasises that the soap plots are tacked on, and so stand out like a sore thumb.
Perhaps it is BBC social propaganda, or perhaps it is a cast member or film maker who wants to do something more 'worthy' or 'serious'.
Either way it working like a reverse romance where I am rooting for Humphrey to find another girlfriend (or script writer).
However I find myself reaching for my phone every time Martha gets a scene. She is a potentially charming character, but she has somehow been burderned by BBC script writers who scrape the barrel for woeful daytime soap plots.
I cannot guess why the BBC has tried to mix overwrought histrionics with the otherwise comic and light theme of the detective work. This strange conflation of genres rather emphasises that the soap plots are tacked on, and so stand out like a sore thumb.
Perhaps it is BBC social propaganda, or perhaps it is a cast member or film maker who wants to do something more 'worthy' or 'serious'.
Either way it working like a reverse romance where I am rooting for Humphrey to find another girlfriend (or script writer).
In previous times, romcoms could be characterised as two strong characters leads that decide to compromise for the sake of love.
As required for modern day morality we have a spirited, bright, but not particularly beautiful, leading lady matched with a talentless bore of a guy. And the transformative element is that the guy has to comletely accept and acknowledge that he is totally talentless.
The fundamental problem for the viewer is to understand how on Earth the girl could possibly fall for this talentless loser.
As required for modern day morality we have a spirited, bright, but not particularly beautiful, leading lady matched with a talentless bore of a guy. And the transformative element is that the guy has to comletely accept and acknowledge that he is totally talentless.
The fundamental problem for the viewer is to understand how on Earth the girl could possibly fall for this talentless loser.