……..Shit. Forgot about that. Poopie.

… But then I admit that 'a young Peter O'Toole' strikes me as a panacea.

Sigh. If only we could get hold of Fukunaga, Cuaron or del Toro to direct, take this to cable and throw some actual thought at the show.

I'd like to see what Swinton would do with the role of Lucifer, actually.

If I had a time machine, a young Peter O'Toole.

D'Oh! I am SO CROSS with myself for not thinking of this! Of COURSE! Blandings Castle has explicitly been alluded to as the Garden of Eden, and with Rupert Baxter off the premises…..

Interesting, because fictional worlds that I enjoy reading/watching about are usually worlds that I'd hate to live in. The 'Song of Ice and Fire's Seven Kingdoms strike me as being singularly unpleasant, especially for a woman. True also of the worlds of Lyra and Will in the 'His Dark Materials' books.

Dev Patel's British.

Aishwarya Rai is an actor?

It's a pretty faithful adaptation, if I remember well, and O'Toole is a gorgeous, anarchic force in it. James McAvoy is apparently very good in the current revival in London, but there's just something about O'Toole's physicality and way with a speech…

I don't actually disagree with your point that the media establishment is under no obligation to reflect an ideal, or even a better, state of society.

….. Wow.

Ah, Anatole. Le don de Dieu aux jus gastriques.

Still, at least your trousers didn't split at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School Prize-Giving.

Oh, I quite agree that Annie's occasional derailing isn't always about Jeff. But I think that the show too-frequently strands Jeff and Annie in long-glances-and-moony-eyes territory, and I think that disproportionately drags down Annie's character.

Heehee! A hit, a most palpable hit. I admit my pomposity. Although technically it is my function to wander the universe insulting everything.

So many moons on, and surely nobody's discussing the actual show anymore, but:

B+ is about right. The chases and the choral 'Creep' had me cackling, and the cat huskies slew me. I'm simple like that. I rolled my eyes vigorously at the Jeff/Annie lantern-hanging, but I guffawed at the Dean snapping his fingers frantically at the wonderfully unimpressed Rhonda during the ACB's phone call. .

Re: Community:
I recently got back into the show (thank you, Amazon Prime) and am at the point where I'm deciding whether to watch Season 4. I watched the first episode and didn't care for it. It felt- off, somehow, like an out-of-phase imitation of itself. Which- given the show's history- is, I guess, what it was.

So Brian's already responded to this much more eloquently, but the play itself I always thought was pretty overtly feminist- as, indeed, every Shaw play I've read so far has struck me. I've always thought of Pygmalion as far more interested in class and/or the interaction of class and gender, than about any pointed…