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Horrible Histories (2009)
Season 6 - New Cast a Dud :(
We're really not liking it. It doesn't have that flow. The old cast had a good rapport & worked so well together. This new cast is very wooden. It's like they're playing their role, but not living it. The old cast really looked like they were having FUN!
I don't know why CBBC decided to do this. It's completely turned my family off the series. Perhaps it's the writing The episodes are just too disjointed to hold a child's attention. Each episode is focused on something specific in history - Napoleon, the Magna Carta, Henry VII. It looks like it should flow, rather than the old method of skits of many different historical facts, but it doesn't. It's too dry and not jaunty enough. The cast just looks so uncomfortable and out of place.
Very sad to see the series go like this. Up till now we have loved it.
Horrible Histories RIP.
Partners in Crime (2015)
Worst Christie Adaption Ever!!!!
What was the BBC thinking???? The characters 'Tommy & Tuppence' are bumbling morons who shouldn't be allowed out of their homes alone. MI5 obviously needs some competent staff if an atomic bomb is going off & they've sent these idiots in to stop it. Let's all just shuffle around a gun & not shoot anyone who deserves it, then shoot some woman in the back without trying to arrest her first or let her know someone is there. Honestly, if it were real they'd all be gaoled for treason & murder - Tommy passed on an MI5 file in the first episode!!! It's all just ridiculous. The plot, or lack of, had my family screaming at the TV screen.
Who wrote this tripe? Did they even read Christie's books or at least watch the 1983 series? Zinnie Harris & Claire Wilson should be coerced into finding a job they're more qualified for. Writing isn't it.
The casting was a serious mistake. There's no rapport between husband & wife. Half the time Raine looks like she wants to murder Walliams. I've only seen Walliams once before in Christie's The Body in the Library. He played that character the same as he played Tommy. Walliams obviously doesn't have the ability to portray a character at all.
The two episodes were disappointing & quite sad. Please don't make a second season. Christie's work deserves better than this.