What is most agreeable about Mapp & Lucia is the principals' refusal to age and settle down like elderly simpletons. They're still so full of life! Spoiler alert:
Just seeing and hearing the boisterous piano duets of "Giorgino" and Lucia quickly has your Chuckle-O-Meter pop-popping. That happy pair dresses with such flair as only English society ever learned to do properly. What wondrous costuming! Watch for the Rolls Lucia casually rides in. It's a stunning antique!
Whereas Prunella Scales, their nemesis Mapp, has the opposite end of the spectrum, and is nevertheless a scream herself. Other members of this devilish cast amuse with consummate skill as well, most of them not intending to amuse us. Nigel Hawthorne never had a funnier role. This is comedy without malice or guile; as Brits do best.
I wouldn't part with my DVD album, or a brace of VHS classics: "Mapp and Lucia." Go find them at a B/Noble near you! Until then;
Au Reservoir!
Just seeing and hearing the boisterous piano duets of "Giorgino" and Lucia quickly has your Chuckle-O-Meter pop-popping. That happy pair dresses with such flair as only English society ever learned to do properly. What wondrous costuming! Watch for the Rolls Lucia casually rides in. It's a stunning antique!
Whereas Prunella Scales, their nemesis Mapp, has the opposite end of the spectrum, and is nevertheless a scream herself. Other members of this devilish cast amuse with consummate skill as well, most of them not intending to amuse us. Nigel Hawthorne never had a funnier role. This is comedy without malice or guile; as Brits do best.
I wouldn't part with my DVD album, or a brace of VHS classics: "Mapp and Lucia." Go find them at a B/Noble near you! Until then;
Au Reservoir!