Personally, I think it was a smooth move sliding Andy into Michael's old slot. He is the only one of  the staff who is actually a caricature rather than a possibly real personality, just like Michael.

Show us the atheist Michaelangelo, the atheist Mozart and the atheist Scorsese, Copolla and Spielberg and then get back to us.

"The 3 leaders of the main political parties in the UK have openly said they don't believe in God"

Or Judaism.

'It should have been you!'.

The dialogue in the boat in which Frank reveals that he wishes it was mack who had floated away to his doom rather than the rum-ham was comedy gold!

Doesn't Spader look seedy and overweight? I wonder what the problem is. Psychosexual issues?

All I can say is that when Kevin started squawking 'Warning!' over and over again and Phyllis fell over backwards, her legs in the air, I burst out laughing.

"honered"

44 in US TV years is about 31 in UK TV years.

Sure but they've always managed to get by before without manufacturing the fake quandaries that tend to fuck up less superior sitcoms.

You are right - it's just that this episode, the sentimantality was laid on a little thicker than usual. I thought the quandary - public office or man - was artificial and so Leslie's touching renunciation scene just didn't work for me.

Perhaps he means a delightful harlequin from a cinqocente commedia del'arte troupe?

Pity. I'm a quadroons-only kind of guy.

Agreed. That lanky sleaze needs to be brought back stet.

I just don't get why they have to break up. In real life, they'd just change the org chart so she didn't report to him.

So, for a start, Bello is about fifteen years younger than Mirren was in the UK original? This is a salient point. Mirren was such a success in the role because she was able to embody the maturity and experience - and years under her belt - that would have got a woman to high rank in the police force in the first…

On the plus side, this review means we'll never open another AVC page and find that 70% of it is clickable Whitney.

"It's not a big and brilliant point he's making but it's a point I agree
with and it's a mildly honorable thing to do aside from perhaps the
health effects. I respect it a lot more than actors trying to look good."

A wank. Have one. Seriously.