Strictly results and Miss Scarlet
I really did like the opening pro routine (I looove that song) but it was brutal in that it demanded flawless execution with the white footwear and hands and faces, and maybe they needed even more rehearsal or to be more au fait with the genre?
Everyone went monochrome among the presenters and judges. Much was made of the shifting fortunes at the top of the leaderboard (is Rhys the most consistent towards the top?) Adam and Dan got reprieved very quickly, the red light falling on Judi wasn’t that much of a shock.
Westlife next, and is the tall gay one Mark? If so Mark was busting out his falsetto and singing like he thought it was nice The Other Two also got to sing on their own and all, but he was knew he was in the finest voice. I was more interested in working out who the pro dancers were. Bravo, Gorka for letting Luba tower over you, but it was confusing that it was Luba, right?
They picked up on Craig vs. Shirley rather than Craig vs. Motsi, although at least this was about how they’d seen Tilly’s paso. I’m still more on Craig’s side than Shirley’s. Claudia was on fine form all night.
Tom got tortured a bit, I was glad the people I’d phoned for were saved, John got tortured a bit, AJ got tortured the most, but rightly, it was Greg in the dance-off, and he said he’d known what he’d done wrong and he’d tidy it up. I was delighted by Giovanni’s increasing signing and Rhy’s increasing Mandarin knowledge.
No novelty song reveals, but INTERESTING that AJ gets an Argentinian Tango next week.
Couldn’t call it myself from the dance-off, but Anton decided to follow the other two judges, although Shirley would have saved Greg, apparently. I’m almost at the point where I miss dance-offs where it’s clear who the better dancer is that it’s a foregone conclusion, although that usually means someone who’s good is just unpopular, which is awful in its own way.
Post-Ot Takes Two Tuesday, it looks like Ugo will be back, but carefully (malerumba!?)
I watched the third ep of Miss Scarlet and The Duke.I was all ‘Anachronistic newspaper’ but I think they were claiming ‘Illustrated newspaper’, so whatever. The whole ep I was reserving my judgment on Eliza, but the episode ended on her seeing what was right in front of her and teaching her housekeeper to read. Phew, she’s not a bad middle class feminist! It also sank in that William’s surname is Wellington, hence the nickname the Duke (I dunno about a Victorian Scot making an easy French joke or a Scot with that name potentially headed for Ireland, but sure, whatever. Well, actually, there’s no way he’s leaving Scotland Yard or arguing/working with Eliza.) I note also that her housekeeper and father called her Lizzie...
Elia had to go undercover with suffragettes, who were possibly about to go militant, and offering a different point of view to everything that came out of all the men’s mouths (except Just Moses, who has a non-dominant perspective as a black man and can see Eliza clearly enough to respect her agency). I enjoyed how it was very much seen through a female lens and what it had to say about power structures, even though it’s in the context of an entertaining murder mystery and not all that subtle. The big drama came when people read each other - Eliza reading William, Margaret reading Eliza, etc.
And we learned that Eliza is perfectly aware that her dead father’s visitations are her talking to herself.
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