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I'm up to Birmingham for the weekend to MidCon, for relief from poker, computers and work.
The new TV series Sensitive Skin started last night and was a bit of a gem. Fans of Marion & Geoff will understand the humour, while Denis Lawson and Joanna Lumley are on top form. That the male character happens to be a professional journalist "of a certain age" is, of course, quite coincidental.
Some cracking lines, including one from Lawson's fictional biog of The Carpenters: "and, as the 80s approached, the Carpenters faded away. In Karen Carpenter's case, literally.".
Another one was something like "the sub-editor eviscerated that article so completely that even Jack The Ripper wouldn't have laid claim to it".
But the moment of pure genius was at the end, when Lawson and Lumley hail a taxi, get in, and leave the dog which they are looking after for their son tied to a post outside the hairdressers. The obvious conclusion would be for the taxi to reverse back into view after 10 seconds or so. But, in this case, it didn't happen. Masterful.
The new TV series Sensitive Skin started last night and was a bit of a gem. Fans of Marion & Geoff will understand the humour, while Denis Lawson and Joanna Lumley are on top form. That the male character happens to be a professional journalist "of a certain age" is, of course, quite coincidental.
Some cracking lines, including one from Lawson's fictional biog of The Carpenters: "and, as the 80s approached, the Carpenters faded away. In Karen Carpenter's case, literally.".
Another one was something like "the sub-editor eviscerated that article so completely that even Jack The Ripper wouldn't have laid claim to it".
But the moment of pure genius was at the end, when Lawson and Lumley hail a taxi, get in, and leave the dog which they are looking after for their son tied to a post outside the hairdressers. The obvious conclusion would be for the taxi to reverse back into view after 10 seconds or so. But, in this case, it didn't happen. Masterful.
