GHOSTS IS BACK!
I didn’t know it was back until I turned to the Radio Times page for Monday and lo and behold, series 3 was airing that night!!!
And in between, I learned via YouTube that there’s an American remake now. As far as I can tell, they’ve mostly found younger, prettier actors and Robin is a Viking called Thor, but there are Native American characters. As for whether it’ll be the new The Office or the new every other British sitcom that’s gone over the pond… I hope the Ghosts team were well remunerated, at least.
As for the episode:so much packed in, that it felt like everyone had a decent amount, although I too was racking my brains for the period-appropriate ghost for the documentary (in my defence, there was a lot going on) and then went ‘Of course, him!’ After Kitty, of al people.
The story of Sir Humphrey’s death got rather poignant with his feeling for his snotty French wife, who turned out not to be that snotty or bad at English, and acknowledged he was a good man, but, still, brass tasks: she had a queen to kill.
And I gasped and giggled at the Chekov’s swords on the chimneybreast that were part of the real, less noble truth of how Humphrey’s head and body got separated. Loved the back and forth between the soldiers, and of course, Mary aside, Robin would be the only upstairs ghost around.
But that was only a bit of it, what with Julian (wrongly) convinced the neighbour was going to have a heart attack and hang around with them forever, while Allison freaked out over talking to the camera - the training montage with Thomas tickled me more than that type of scene normally does.
But actually, the whole ‘trying to get the Captain and Lady Fanny to laugh’ thing (oh, Pat) led to the genius bit with the infectious laughter. It certainly worked on this member of the audience. Very clever.
I did want to pick at Robin’s speech at that neighbour’s approach, more for qoting Shakespeare’s ‘something wicked this way comes’ than ‘bad moonah rising’ when he’s also being used for dumber gags. But Alison’s response to getting handed a champagne bucket by the man who just wanted to get on telly was funny.
As the family gathered to watch the documentary, from Alison’s descent from the confident speaker to the frazzled ghost hearer and Julian’s pride in his cameo and all, the heart warmed. It’s smashing to have them back. (I do wonder whether the plague victims will return given recent events. I quite liked their appearance in the second series, myself, but I'd imagine it might be tricky.)
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And in between, I learned via YouTube that there’s an American remake now. As far as I can tell, they’ve mostly found younger, prettier actors and Robin is a Viking called Thor, but there are Native American characters. As for whether it’ll be the new The Office or the new every other British sitcom that’s gone over the pond… I hope the Ghosts team were well remunerated, at least.
As for the episode:so much packed in, that it felt like everyone had a decent amount, although I too was racking my brains for the period-appropriate ghost for the documentary (in my defence, there was a lot going on) and then went ‘Of course, him!’ After Kitty, of al people.
The story of Sir Humphrey’s death got rather poignant with his feeling for his snotty French wife, who turned out not to be that snotty or bad at English, and acknowledged he was a good man, but, still, brass tasks: she had a queen to kill.
And I gasped and giggled at the Chekov’s swords on the chimneybreast that were part of the real, less noble truth of how Humphrey’s head and body got separated. Loved the back and forth between the soldiers, and of course, Mary aside, Robin would be the only upstairs ghost around.
But that was only a bit of it, what with Julian (wrongly) convinced the neighbour was going to have a heart attack and hang around with them forever, while Allison freaked out over talking to the camera - the training montage with Thomas tickled me more than that type of scene normally does.
But actually, the whole ‘trying to get the Captain and Lady Fanny to laugh’ thing (oh, Pat) led to the genius bit with the infectious laughter. It certainly worked on this member of the audience. Very clever.
I did want to pick at Robin’s speech at that neighbour’s approach, more for qoting Shakespeare’s ‘something wicked this way comes’ than ‘bad moonah rising’ when he’s also being used for dumber gags. But Alison’s response to getting handed a champagne bucket by the man who just wanted to get on telly was funny.
As the family gathered to watch the documentary, from Alison’s descent from the confident speaker to the frazzled ghost hearer and Julian’s pride in his cameo and all, the heart warmed. It’s smashing to have them back. (I do wonder whether the plague victims will return given recent events. I quite liked their appearance in the second series, myself, but I'd imagine it might be tricky.)
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/466826.html.