johnners11-707-47855
Joined Jun 2013
Badges2
To learn how to earn badges, go to the badges help page.
Reviews8
johnners11-707-47855's rating
A minor disagreement gradually develops into a seemingly doomed relationship.
On the face of it, this play looks like a lot of other domestic dramas of the time: well-to-do middle-class couple in London, married for years and the relationship has staled. But the performances by the lead actors have a wonderful complexity about them. The husband's in particular takes you from a quiet indifference to some seemingly out of character flashes of emotion that come from nowhere.
While the pacing might be a little slow to start, it does develop as the play goes on, concluding in a marvelous twist right at the very end.
The cast is top-notch, and the stand-out performance for me was Clive Swift as the bachelor next door, who is the antithesis of the main character.
On the face of it, this play looks like a lot of other domestic dramas of the time: well-to-do middle-class couple in London, married for years and the relationship has staled. But the performances by the lead actors have a wonderful complexity about them. The husband's in particular takes you from a quiet indifference to some seemingly out of character flashes of emotion that come from nowhere.
While the pacing might be a little slow to start, it does develop as the play goes on, concluding in a marvelous twist right at the very end.
The cast is top-notch, and the stand-out performance for me was Clive Swift as the bachelor next door, who is the antithesis of the main character.
I was about 40 minutes into this episode and I found myself asking "What is even going on?"
The characters just seemed to run together, it wasn't clear what the motivation for the first murder was, and it was just becoming rather silly. Barnaby and Jones looked like they couldn't work out what was going on either, and when it seemed like every character appeared in every scene, I just couldn't anymore.
A real shame, as the last episode, "Master Class" was a real winner that presented a number of candidates and clues and kept you guessing right up to the end. . Compared to that one, this episode was a hot mess. I hope the next episode is more engaging!
The characters just seemed to run together, it wasn't clear what the motivation for the first murder was, and it was just becoming rather silly. Barnaby and Jones looked like they couldn't work out what was going on either, and when it seemed like every character appeared in every scene, I just couldn't anymore.
A real shame, as the last episode, "Master Class" was a real winner that presented a number of candidates and clues and kept you guessing right up to the end. . Compared to that one, this episode was a hot mess. I hope the next episode is more engaging!