 Lizzie and Sarah, New from Jessica Hynes and Julia Davis |
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 Mar 17 2010, 05:38 PM
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Fur Pinter  Group: Senior Members Posts: 887 Joined: 12-July 08 Member No.: 6,661  |
A dark comedy pilot written by and starring Julia Davis and Jessica Hynes. Also featuring Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, and Claire Rushbrook. |
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Mar 21 2010, 03:14 PM
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never rub another man's rhubarb Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,714 Joined: 2-October 04 Member No.: 2,308 |
One of the most relentlessly tragic comedies I've seen in a while, but brilliant. Shame the BBC buried it at stupid o'clock oin a Saturday night.
Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tva...izzie-sarah-bbc iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rq...zzie_and_Sarah/ |
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Mar 21 2010, 03:33 PM
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Forgot it was on. I'll watch it on iplayer later.
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Mar 21 2010, 04:10 PM
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Smut by the Sea Group: Senior Members Posts: 18,671 Joined: 5-October 04 From: The North Member No.: 2,387 |
I'm not very fond of cruelty in comedy, but the final 2 thirds really came into their own, Julia Davis was splendid, excellent support and horribly heartwrenching as well as funny, But Jess overplayed it, I found it very hard to feel any sympathy for her character (though her airheaded bimbo, I loved. It was uncanny).
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Mar 21 2010, 04:26 PM
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never rub another man's rhubarb Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,714 Joined: 2-October 04 Member No.: 2,308 |
I thought Jess was brilliant. Tough to play such a weak willed character in a likeable manner but she pulled it off magnificently. All the performances were great.
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Mar 21 2010, 04:34 PM
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Smut by the Sea Group: Senior Members Posts: 18,671 Joined: 5-October 04 From: The North Member No.: 2,387 |
Her characterization just didn't feel like it came from the same piece - she definitely didn't look middle-aged for a start, just like someone mucking about pretending to be an old person.
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Mar 21 2010, 06:03 PM
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Fur Pinter Group: Senior Members Posts: 887 Joined: 12-July 08 Member No.: 6,661 |
I absolutely loved it. Jessica and Julia were great and it was good to see the characters from the radio show.
QUOTE Producer Ali McPhail: The idea was that each episode in the series would focus on a different pair of women, and Lizzie and Sarah, could potentially be the last episode in a series of six. So what happens in the first five episodes?! Julia and Jess also play beautifully observed, self-obsessed teenagers, Ellie and Faith. They had a lot of fun on those days, and loved casting off their fat suits. Hope there's a series. |
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Mar 22 2010, 09:48 AM
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It had its moments but it could have done with more jokes and more things happening.
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Mar 22 2010, 04:25 PM
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Bully for you Group: Senior Members Posts: 20,419 Joined: 25-February 05 From: behind a desk, sitting very still Member No.: 3,498 |
I thought it was great. The first half was beautifully, and painfully, observed and really captured the sense that these characters have had to endure such cruelty and pain for so long, and the second half, whilst much broader, managed to keep that same crushing emotional violence ("I thought you didn't want children"/"I didn't want your children") whilst allowing the characters to have their moment of triumph. It's what Thelma and Louise would have been, had it been a play by Harold Pinter.
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Mar 25 2010, 01:58 PM
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"Mus" à gauche, "TANG" Group: Senior Moderators Posts: 15,567 Joined: 11-November 04 From: London Member No.: 2,740 |
I really enjoyed it. When it was dark it was very very dark, when it was funny it was hilarious. Great use of music too.
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Mar 25 2010, 02:00 PM
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your typical selfish, back-stabbing slut faced ho-bag  Group: Senior Moderators Posts: 28,277 Joined: 2-October 04 From: Norf London Member No.: 2,309 |
Oh yes, I thought this was excellent too. My friend Steve was shot! Lovely.
I laughed a lot at the pillow face joke. I watched it with my Dad. |
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Mar 25 2010, 02:53 PM
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Batman. Group: Senior Members Posts: 4,578 Joined: 7-August 06 From: Gallifrey Member No.: 5,397 |
I didn't even see it.
To iplayer tonight! |
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Mar 26 2010, 02:59 AM
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All out of mercy today. Group: Senior Members Posts: 7,109 Joined: 30-November 05 From: Here to Eternity (Just outside Bolton) Member No.: 4,706 |
Very dark. I loved it.
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Mar 26 2010, 09:17 AM
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Early 80's Tom Hanks Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,693 Joined: 6-October 05 From: Isle of Dogs, London Member No.: 4,536 |
I found it pulled its punches a bit. Perhaps its half hour format but I felt that the turn around was very swift and that the abuse at the start was so extreme that it took the edge of it. It was evidently in the vein of Nighty Night but lacked some of that unescapable darkness somehow, although that's perhaps not a fair comaprison. I felt like the husbands could have done with being a little bit more human, just as cruel, but more human. I did enjoy it all in all.
I quite fancied Branita. |
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Mar 26 2010, 10:27 AM
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Smut by the Sea Group: Senior Members Posts: 18,671 Joined: 5-October 04 From: The North Member No.: 2,387 |
QUOTE (empathy-with-beast @ Mar 26 2010, 09:17 AM)  I quite fancied Branita. My first thought when I clapped eyes on her. As in "I bet Lewis would do her" not "I'd do her". This post has been edited by PrincessKate: Mar 26 2010, 10:28 AM |
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