A man meets his dream girl at a resort - years before she arrives.A man meets his dream girl at a resort - years before she arrives.A man meets his dream girl at a resort - years before she arrives.
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Let's play Time Travellers
Perfect tropical island hideaway. English gent straight out of Somerset Maugham relating a mysterious anecdote to a stranger, in the style of Joseph Conrad. But the script was not written by authors of this calibre. And 25 minutes is nowhere near long enough to unravel the complex elements of the story.
A lonely alcoholic misfit (played by Lee Philips) has been having a recurring dream about a beautiful blonde jewellery designer called Delia, whom he now meets by chance in the hotel garden - only to find that she has been having the same dream about him. But when he tries to find her next day, she has disappeared and no-one claims ever to have heard of her. Rather improbably, he stays on at the hotel for eight years, drinking himself to death, and his body is found in the sea, wearing a piece of jewellery confirmed to have been one of her designs.
Confusingly, your host John Newland also pops-up as one of the characters. Delia never comes to life at all; she is just plonked down among the trees like a statue. And it would not have taken much to apply a few lines of stress and suffering to Lee Philips' brow, to signal his long years of alcoholic decline and dereliction, instead of just pasting-on quite a neat beard to a face otherwise totally unchanged.
The series, 'One Step Beyond', claims to be based on 'human record', a code for more or less true-life stories, and a bit of a cop-out in my book. Behind all the mumbo-jumbo about 'teleportation' (trying to make astral projection sound new), I guess the present episode could be summed-up as Tall Tales after a few Tall Drinks.
A lonely alcoholic misfit (played by Lee Philips) has been having a recurring dream about a beautiful blonde jewellery designer called Delia, whom he now meets by chance in the hotel garden - only to find that she has been having the same dream about him. But when he tries to find her next day, she has disappeared and no-one claims ever to have heard of her. Rather improbably, he stays on at the hotel for eight years, drinking himself to death, and his body is found in the sea, wearing a piece of jewellery confirmed to have been one of her designs.
Confusingly, your host John Newland also pops-up as one of the characters. Delia never comes to life at all; she is just plonked down among the trees like a statue. And it would not have taken much to apply a few lines of stress and suffering to Lee Philips' brow, to signal his long years of alcoholic decline and dereliction, instead of just pasting-on quite a neat beard to a face otherwise totally unchanged.
The series, 'One Step Beyond', claims to be based on 'human record', a code for more or less true-life stories, and a bit of a cop-out in my book. Behind all the mumbo-jumbo about 'teleportation' (trying to make astral projection sound new), I guess the present episode could be summed-up as Tall Tales after a few Tall Drinks.
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- Goingbegging
- Sep 11, 2021
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