I know Pencil Neck is supposed to be a progressive artist and all that, and I didn't know that he was actually the person Margaret marries, for some reason, but he's an awfully boring actor, one-note all the way, and doesn't fit the style of this show... it seems like they threw in a 00's Hipster into late 1950's England and this episode and the one where they meet is just too artsy, too pretentious, and, again, tries too hard to be edgy, which goes against the entire purpose of the series...
Hopefully this doesn't wind up like Mad Men, that started out brilliantly during the more sparse times until all the fake groovy clothes and faker wigs got distracting... Licorice Boy aka Marg's husband is the beginning of that too-modern approach that the writer is/was probably dying to reach after so much tradition: which is more interesting to see the cracks in tradition than the useless void of progressives having to tradition at all.
Hopefully this doesn't wind up like Mad Men, that started out brilliantly during the more sparse times until all the fake groovy clothes and faker wigs got distracting... Licorice Boy aka Marg's husband is the beginning of that too-modern approach that the writer is/was probably dying to reach after so much tradition: which is more interesting to see the cracks in tradition than the useless void of progressives having to tradition at all.