Thank you! I was just about to look this up. I was pretty sure John Logan would have made certain to use a real ship.
Thank you! I was just about to look this up. I was pretty sure John Logan would have made certain to use a real ship.
Rory Kinnear had me in tears every time he appeared tonight. Such a wonderful - and at one time unexpected - resolution for John Clare's character; and unlike Scott, I don't begrudge it to him on account of his murder of Proteus and Van Helsing. While Ethan (until last week, at least) and Vanessa have gone from good…
Joseph Bazalgette - apart from having an awesome surname - is one of my heroes, and one of the truly great Victorians.
I just want to mention here how much I love Edward Everett Horton, a character actor whose name in the credits of a film almost always makes me want to watch it. I suspect a lot of people will remember him for 'Fractured Fairy Tales' on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (which I'm almost, but not quite, old enough to…
I didn't know how much I wanted to see a McAuslan comedy TV series until right now. 'General Knowledge, Private Information' from McAuslan in the Rough is one of my favourite short stories ever.
I'd love to see George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels - or at least some of them - given the TV miniseries treatment. There was one not-very-good film version back in 1975 (Royal Flash starring Malcolm McDowell as Flash Harry), but I think they'd work well on television, with its less constraining running time.…
I think Malcolm realised that one of them (Ethan or his father) was going to end up dead. After what he and Kaetanay have been through, it won't be Ethan. So Malcolm killed Jared to save Ethan having to do it and having one more sin on his conscience.
It seems like there's so much backstory about him we should find out, but won't if he's dead. How does he know so much about the occult? It's not just understanding and accepting that Ethan is a werewolf (how?), but he sussed out Hecate pretty quickly too.
Any thoughts on Catriona Hartdegen? Not overly impressed by her so far (especially as she can't even pronounce her own name correctly - it's Ca-tree-na, not Cat-ree-oh-na), and she seems little more than a way to convey info about Dracula to Vanessa.
When Vanessa said she had one friend she might turn to, I half-hoped she'd remembered John Clare and was going to go find him. I cannot wait to see what happens when those two meet up again. It's true that Clare didn't appear to remember/recognise Vanessa when he met her last season, but his memories of who he was…
Agreed about Kinnear. It was such a beautifully played scene on his part, and I felt sick watching it and wondering when the hammer would fall.
The overhead shot of Vanessa and Dr Sweet after they have sex, with Vanessa's gown spread on the floor around them like a pool of blood or a bat's wings, was stunning. In terms of the beauty of many of the shots, the care with lighting and composition and texture, is there a better-looking show on TV right now?
That's the great Joan McCracken in the 1947 version performing 'Pass That Peace Pipe'. She was a great comedian and dancer who deserves to be better known today; she died tragically young (only 43).
Did anyone else say or think 'Hey, it's Tremors!' when Hecate's snakes started to stir?
Well, Evelyn Greene and Josh Hartnett are both good actors, but they're no Eva Green and Rory Kinnear, and I didn't find their interplay nearly as compelling as last week's, despite the similarity in the storylines (evil trying to win over a soul who could go either way). And Ethan gave in way too fast to one of…
I never thought I'd say this - even though I've liked Douglas Hodge's Insp. Rusk since he was introduced - but I really want to see a spin-off prequel series about Rusk now, showing him in the Transvaal and detailing how he came to believe in the occult.
I love all things melodramatic, Gothic, supernatural, and Victorian, so when this show was announced it was catnip, pure and simple. Hearing that Rory Kinnear was part of the cast was icing. Like you, I've been waiting since the first series for John Logan to finally give one of the best stage actors of his generation…
This show has given us more than its fair share of explicit sex scenes; but the scene between Eva Green and Rory Kinnear, as he brushes her hair and applies her make-up, was one of the most beautifully intimate scenes between two actors I've seen in a long time.
Wasn't that Richard E. Grant playing one of the actors? Backstage, after the play, it certainly looked (and sounded) like him.
I said to my husband, near the end of the episode, 'Okay, just give Eva Green and Rory Kinnear all the awards already and be done with it.'