Carl Deuker -- Books, Movies, TV

Nuclear disaster.  Good start to mini-series. Soviet officials in denial, at least partly because of how bad the truth will make the soviets look.  Excellent sets, acting.

Comedy is supposed to be daring, and this definitely was.  Some great moments and episodes, some not  so great.  Fleabag involved in the death of her business partner friend because she slept with associate's boyfriend.  Suicide follows. Sex as constant with Fleabag. Pleasure and pain.  Father remarrying an artist after death of her mother. Tough, up and down, relationship with her sister.  Affair with a priest.  Based on a one-person show, all episodes under 30 minutes.  11 episodes in all.

Ugh.  I'd heard for years how great this TV series was and had somehow managed not to see it. Now, after the surge in TV quality, it looks rather sad as far as production values go.  That would be okay if there was a strong sense of history.  Instead. WWII and the Indian movement for freedom are background noise.  Ronald Merrick, sadistic homosexual non-aristocrat, stands for all that is bad about Britain. Sarah and her beau pretty much stand for the good -- by not pushing British on India.  More soap opera than historical fiction.  Way more