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Showing posts with label Derek Jacobi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Derek Jacobi. Show all posts
Friday, 2 May 2025

The Gathering Storm

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 "He promised to cut down to three bottles of champagne in the evening." It's good to see this again, twenty-three years after...
Wednesday, 23 August 2023

Good Omens: Every Day

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 "You know as well as I do how badly understaffed Hell is right now." Crikey, that was a busy final episode. And, in the end, it w...
Wednesday, 28 September 2022

The Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope

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 "Writers are liars." I'm again following far too many series because pesky present day telly insists on throwing up The Rings...
Thursday, 29 October 2020

The Crown: Season 3, Episode 8- Dangling Man

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 "One doesn't often get a chance to visit a former king. Former kings are usually dead." An interesting episode here, one that...
Sunday, 30 June 2019

Good Omens: Saturday Morning Funtime

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“Did you count their nipples?” Adam, very much a Boy's Own Antichrist, is starting to affect reality in visually expressive ways which...
Tuesday, 4 June 2019

I, Clavdivs: Old King Log

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"The man who dwells by the pool shall open Graves..." The first episode, which seems so long ago, featured an interesting bit of...
Friday, 31 May 2019

I Clavdivs: A God in Colchester

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"Copulation on a cosmic scale!" This episode is, to a large extent, a continuation of the last one with even more sex- although ...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019

I Clavdivs: Fool's Luck

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"Congratulations, Caesar. You've just passed your first sentence of death. How many before the people grow tired and pass one on yo...
Friday, 24 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Hail Who?

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“Drusilla! I’m dying!” So this is it; the big one. Claudius, amongst chaotic schemes, and while protesting that he wants a republic, is ma...
Thursday, 23 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Zeus, By Jove

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"Don't go in there..." In a sense this episode just goes to show an increasing sense of depravity in Julio-Claudia Rome, as ...
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Reign of Terror

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“Do you know him personally?” “No, but I have slept with his wife several times.” This time I , Clavdivs channels the Ben Jonson play S...
Tuesday, 21 May 2019

I Clavdivs: Queen of Heaven

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“He’s building a prison here, stone by stone.” Damn all this current telly and it’s distracting me from the antics of those naughty Julio-...
Thursday, 9 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Some Justice

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"That child is a monster!" This episode takes what is perhaps an unexpected turn as a courtroom drama unfolds. This courtroom dr...
Tuesday, 7 May 2019

I, Clavdivs: Poison Is Queen

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"Don't touch the figs..." Well, even by the high standards of this rightly praised drama, that was exceptional. And this, mo...
Wednesday, 1 May 2019

I Clavdivs: What Shall We Do About Claudius?

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“Are you sure this girl will marry him?” “What’s it to do with her?” In a sense, I suppose, you could say that this episode’s plot is la...
Sunday, 28 April 2019

I Clavdivs: Waiting in the Wings

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“IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER???!!!” Sometimes it’s hard finding a quote. Today is not one of those times. ...
Saturday, 27 April 2019

I, Clavdivs: A Touch of Murder

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"It never was what it was..." It's 20th September 1976. I am as yet a very small collection of cells in my mother's womb...
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Saturday, 12 August 2017

The Day of the Jackal (1973)

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"How did you know whose telephone to tap?" "I didn't. So I tapped all of them."  I read the novel in my teens,...
Tuesday, 13 December 2016

The Odessa File (1974)

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"You are not even worth a bullet..." Frederick Forsyth is one of those guilty pleasures; hardly a literary writer, prose that ma...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

Nanny McPhee (2005)

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"I did knock..." I wasn't originally going to blog this, hence the fact that I'm wings big it without any notes. It is...