I tuned in with real hopes for this series, having been a great fan of Miss Fisher and Murdoch Mysteries, but two episodes in I'm wondering whether to continue recording and watching it. It's the heroine... Just irritating and not convincing as an actress, sorry. Maybe if there was someone with more charisma and oomph playing the main lead we might be in for a treat, but at the moment I'm hard pressed to carry on. Reading other reviews it doesn't seem that it does improve, but I'll persevere for a bit and live in hope. I understand that the interracial friendships, which presumably would've been incredibly difficult in the era are good for the show, and I can suspend disbelief for these as I do on Murdoch, which at least does show some discrimination and problems for women, but the main character really does lack any get up and go, and some of the other actors also seem a bit wooden.
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Annoying 'British' cast member
20 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This whole episode was totally ruined for me by the posing of a Australian actor as a British police officer. Not only did he make a feeble attempt at a British cockney accent, but the plot included him passing as a member of the English aristocracy (!) having been awarded a scholarship to Eton (double !) No member of the aristocracy has an accent like that (even if it were a true cockney accent rather than strine); no ex Eton schoolboy would have an accent like that, and the idea of a charwoman's son from the East End getting a scholarship there is even more laughable.
I do get it that most people in America wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the Aussie and the London accent, but as the series is sold and shown in the UK, surely there's no shortage of British actors who could have taken the role, and informed the powers that be of the glaring anomalies. The fact that he was an Aussie was obvious to us from the very first utterance, and we therefore couldn't take it seriously.
As for the episode itself, well the tension between Becket and Castle is getting unbearable but please let's hope we've seen the last of the 'Scotland Yard Detective' - although I have a horrible feeling that we might not have ...
I do get it that most people in America wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the Aussie and the London accent, but as the series is sold and shown in the UK, surely there's no shortage of British actors who could have taken the role, and informed the powers that be of the glaring anomalies. The fact that he was an Aussie was obvious to us from the very first utterance, and we therefore couldn't take it seriously.
As for the episode itself, well the tension between Becket and Castle is getting unbearable but please let's hope we've seen the last of the 'Scotland Yard Detective' - although I have a horrible feeling that we might not have ...
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