All the out-of-context shrieking makes SO much sense now! I slammed the reserve button on this one super fast and am wholly prepared to (gently) hip check Actual Teens (TM) out of my way in order to get it. You had me at cheerfully grim Iris... but Mrs. Westmacott?! I swoon! I love this for Kathleen Glasgow... Her previous stuff has been very serious and realistic, so I'll bet this straight OTT surrealistic stuff was SO much fun.
Also, I am LONGING to tell someone I can solve a murder because I've been binge-reading Gladys Mitchell. I was actually a bit offended for poor Alice. The nerve!
Happy Weekend! I raise a cookie to your continued employment. 🍪
Yes!! I've only read Girl in Pieces, which was GREAT but also EMOTIONALLY A LOT, and so this was such delightful FUN. So exciting to see someone switch gears so entirely like that.
I'm going to look up Gladys Mitchell, I don't know her??
Ohh, she wrote the Mrs. Bradley mysteries. I backtracked to read up on her after the BBC had Diana Rigg do a trilogy of books years ago... Mrs. B is brilliant, as is Dame Di in the role, of course. Before Miss F and her glorious clothes, there was Mrs. B.
Ooooooh, they pop up in my feed periodically, but I've never watched them! That is VERY exciting, I'll make a point of getting cozy with tea and blankets and get CAUGHT UP. (The most contemporary thing I've seen Diana Rigg in is The Detectorists, in which she plays the mother-in-law to the main character—who is married to a woman who is played by Rigg's real-life daughter. As said mother-in-law, she is terrifying and wonderful.)
I haven't watched The Detectorist's yet, so win-win here!!!!
I will cozy up with tea and blankets just as SOON as this 97°F heat situation subsides. It's cramping my movie-watching style...
Urgh, I am such a baby about that kind of heat, we usually only get a few days that hot every year and I moan the entire time. GOOD LUCK!!! <3
Let me know if you end up trying The Detectorists—we've watched it multiple times and we found it so warm and nuanced and funny and lovely.
All the out-of-context shrieking makes SO much sense now! I slammed the reserve button on this one super fast and am wholly prepared to (gently) hip check Actual Teens (TM) out of my way in order to get it. You had me at cheerfully grim Iris... but Mrs. Westmacott?! I swoon! I love this for Kathleen Glasgow... Her previous stuff has been very serious and realistic, so I'll bet this straight OTT surrealistic stuff was SO much fun.
Also, I am LONGING to tell someone I can solve a murder because I've been binge-reading Gladys Mitchell. I was actually a bit offended for poor Alice. The nerve!
Happy Weekend! I raise a cookie to your continued employment. 🍪
Yes!! I've only read Girl in Pieces, which was GREAT but also EMOTIONALLY A LOT, and so this was such delightful FUN. So exciting to see someone switch gears so entirely like that.
I'm going to look up Gladys Mitchell, I don't know her??
Ohh, she wrote the Mrs. Bradley mysteries. I backtracked to read up on her after the BBC had Diana Rigg do a trilogy of books years ago... Mrs. B is brilliant, as is Dame Di in the role, of course. Before Miss F and her glorious clothes, there was Mrs. B.
Ooooooh, they pop up in my feed periodically, but I've never watched them! That is VERY exciting, I'll make a point of getting cozy with tea and blankets and get CAUGHT UP. (The most contemporary thing I've seen Diana Rigg in is The Detectorists, in which she plays the mother-in-law to the main character—who is married to a woman who is played by Rigg's real-life daughter. As said mother-in-law, she is terrifying and wonderful.)