This is (was) my new wind down at night show before bed...however.... I roll my eyes throughout. Ending season 2, I'm not sure how much longer I can hang in there.
The writing is so obvious and obtuse, at times, that it hurts. These poor actors who have to make these soapy silly plot lines make sense. Most of them do a great job of remaining real people, but some are becoming Caricatures of themselves. It's not their fault, they are written on the nose, and directed and produced in that direction. (The most cartoon like character has left the show, thankfully. The writing for her was so over the top! I felt sorry for her. Why are obese women often written as obnoxious?) I'm also not sure why Dorcas now whisper talks. My husband walked in the room yesterday and said, "why is she whispering?"
Every single episode someone does something so out of character in such a large manner right at the start, so then I know ah...that's where we're going-back in the opposite direction.
Tonight's episode was so dumb, it prompted me to write this review. It switched back and forth so bizarrely and made no sense at all.
The hotelier (who's in love with Dorcas) finds out he has a son. He's thrilled, but opts to keep him in some boarding school. Dorcas then starts, inexplicably, hearing a child cry (that ain't there). Is she psychic now? Did she have a bad childhood? (Not that they're mentioned). She runs to the hotelier, very upset and breathless, asking him to check on the school. The hotelier yells at her, bizarrely. "How dare you...?!" kind of prattle. Dorcas checks on the school herself and it's horrible. She tells the hotelier this - he at first yells at her, inexplicably, then urgently changes his tune and tells her to wire that he'll pick up the kid ASAP! He's then injured and hospitalized with a head injury. The kid stays with Dorcas for a couple of days. The hotelier checks himself out of the hospital early while still very very sick, inexplicably. He comes to see the kid at Dorcas's, faints, comes to and yells at the kid, inexplicably. Since the hotelier has always been VERY kind we can only assume it's due to his head injury. But ...alas....nope. The next day he moves back to London and leaves the kid permanently with Dorcas!!!
What?!?!
And never even asks Dorcas, um...do you want a kid??? He just leaves her a note. "If he ever wants to know me, I'm in London." So she's what, got to hire poirot to find him???
AND the writers made this HUUUUUUGE display of him signing over all his hotels and money so he has no place to live, and no job in London AND his only last job or home is the hotel in candleford (which was barley hanging on the episode before) and he just leaves it to be run byyyyyyyy....???? Um....no one.
It was so weird and so stupid. Can you imagine someone taking in your kid for a few days when your injured and then you just move?!?!
It's often totally unrealistic in little things too. Dorcus is So ill she collapses unconscious on the floor, Queenie arrives and in 30 minutes she's up and about and well.
(Of course this was all to show the hoteliers love for Dorcas, who fetched Queenie). I wish we had that flu remedy in 2021!!
I guess there's not much that can go on in this little town so the writers create drama. But does it have to be stupid illogics breaking established strong character traits??
And as I said, I kept watching it. Until last night. Now it's a car crash I can't look away from. I may do one more episode just to see if the Hotelier comes back(?), but I am shopping for another BBC show.
Ita too bad. It's innocent and nothing really bad happens, except the writing.
The writing is so obvious and obtuse, at times, that it hurts. These poor actors who have to make these soapy silly plot lines make sense. Most of them do a great job of remaining real people, but some are becoming Caricatures of themselves. It's not their fault, they are written on the nose, and directed and produced in that direction. (The most cartoon like character has left the show, thankfully. The writing for her was so over the top! I felt sorry for her. Why are obese women often written as obnoxious?) I'm also not sure why Dorcas now whisper talks. My husband walked in the room yesterday and said, "why is she whispering?"
Every single episode someone does something so out of character in such a large manner right at the start, so then I know ah...that's where we're going-back in the opposite direction.
Tonight's episode was so dumb, it prompted me to write this review. It switched back and forth so bizarrely and made no sense at all.
The hotelier (who's in love with Dorcas) finds out he has a son. He's thrilled, but opts to keep him in some boarding school. Dorcas then starts, inexplicably, hearing a child cry (that ain't there). Is she psychic now? Did she have a bad childhood? (Not that they're mentioned). She runs to the hotelier, very upset and breathless, asking him to check on the school. The hotelier yells at her, bizarrely. "How dare you...?!" kind of prattle. Dorcas checks on the school herself and it's horrible. She tells the hotelier this - he at first yells at her, inexplicably, then urgently changes his tune and tells her to wire that he'll pick up the kid ASAP! He's then injured and hospitalized with a head injury. The kid stays with Dorcas for a couple of days. The hotelier checks himself out of the hospital early while still very very sick, inexplicably. He comes to see the kid at Dorcas's, faints, comes to and yells at the kid, inexplicably. Since the hotelier has always been VERY kind we can only assume it's due to his head injury. But ...alas....nope. The next day he moves back to London and leaves the kid permanently with Dorcas!!!
What?!?!
And never even asks Dorcas, um...do you want a kid??? He just leaves her a note. "If he ever wants to know me, I'm in London." So she's what, got to hire poirot to find him???
AND the writers made this HUUUUUUGE display of him signing over all his hotels and money so he has no place to live, and no job in London AND his only last job or home is the hotel in candleford (which was barley hanging on the episode before) and he just leaves it to be run byyyyyyyy....???? Um....no one.
It was so weird and so stupid. Can you imagine someone taking in your kid for a few days when your injured and then you just move?!?!
It's often totally unrealistic in little things too. Dorcus is So ill she collapses unconscious on the floor, Queenie arrives and in 30 minutes she's up and about and well.
(Of course this was all to show the hoteliers love for Dorcas, who fetched Queenie). I wish we had that flu remedy in 2021!!
I guess there's not much that can go on in this little town so the writers create drama. But does it have to be stupid illogics breaking established strong character traits??
And as I said, I kept watching it. Until last night. Now it's a car crash I can't look away from. I may do one more episode just to see if the Hotelier comes back(?), but I am shopping for another BBC show.
Ita too bad. It's innocent and nothing really bad happens, except the writing.