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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 215527" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>It's taken two and a half years, but I've finally started watching <em>Brass</em> this week.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51m--5ZdeyL._AC_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Seven episodes in, I'm loving it. I'm not 100% familiar with the genre the series lampoons (the Northern period drama), but even so I can really appreciate how accurate it is. Love that everything is played completely straight. It's enjoyably over the top, but manages not to feel ridiculous - - even when it's <em>being</em> ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>There are brilliantly wry lines and scripts are wonderfully verbose. I'm in awe of the actors delivering what sometimes seems like pages and pages of dialogue while still keeping up such great energy and maintaining the very specific tone of the series.</p><p></p><p>So much has happened already. The last episode alone had someone back from being believed dead; two attempted murders; someone about to marry his own sister until the twist that she, too, is illegitimate and therefore not his sister (except she then walked in on her lover in bed with her mother); a catfight in a hospital over an amnesiac patient; a woman revealing she was only pretending to be paralysed. Oh and the cliffhanger that half the cast is possibly about to die in an explosion.</p><p></p><p>It's our answer to <em>Soap</em>, I suppose. And also a kind of forerunner to <em>Acorn Antiques</em>.</p><p></p><p>However I must confess to feeling slightly perturbed by Barbara Ewing's cleavage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 215527, member: 23"] It's taken two and a half years, but I've finally started watching [I]Brass[/I] this week. [IMG]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51m--5ZdeyL._AC_.jpg[/IMG] Seven episodes in, I'm loving it. I'm not 100% familiar with the genre the series lampoons (the Northern period drama), but even so I can really appreciate how accurate it is. Love that everything is played completely straight. It's enjoyably over the top, but manages not to feel ridiculous - - even when it's [I]being[/I] ridiculous. There are brilliantly wry lines and scripts are wonderfully verbose. I'm in awe of the actors delivering what sometimes seems like pages and pages of dialogue while still keeping up such great energy and maintaining the very specific tone of the series. So much has happened already. The last episode alone had someone back from being believed dead; two attempted murders; someone about to marry his own sister until the twist that she, too, is illegitimate and therefore not his sister (except she then walked in on her lover in bed with her mother); a catfight in a hospital over an amnesiac patient; a woman revealing she was only pretending to be paralysed. Oh and the cliffhanger that half the cast is possibly about to die in an explosion. It's our answer to [I]Soap[/I], I suppose. And also a kind of forerunner to [I]Acorn Antiques[/I]. However I must confess to feeling slightly perturbed by Barbara Ewing's cleavage. [/QUOTE]
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