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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 275721" data-attributes="member: 673">I loved the miniseries but I only managed a few episodes of the series. I found scenes like Jilly sharing a bottle of champagne in a prison cell with her old cellmate to be just stupid. As Willie said, the characters hadn&#039;t earned their popularity yet. When you saw Alexis doing similar in her prison cell in season 5 of Dynasty, you just rolled with it as the show had established itself in the realm of camp. But for RTE to do it straight out the gate, it just felt a bit try-hard.Peta Toppano spoke out in TV Week, to complain about the number of sex scenes in the show and said she&#039;d led a group of actresses who&#039;d lodged a formal complaint about it. She said &quot;It would have been more honest for us to have done nude scenes than to run around in a pair of lace knickers. Maybe they thought that sex and naughtiness would sell RTE but I think it&#039;s quite tedious&quot;. She also complained about the long working hours.Nicki Paull described it as &quot;the most intense experience I&#039;ve had. The show underwent such a change from what we were originally told. I&#039;m someone who needs a very clear and definite idea of the role I&#039;m expected to play. I&#039;d be very wary about anything like that happening again&quot;.Last but not least, Daniel Abineri told TV Week that for the last ten weeks of filming, he&#039;d been playing it for laughs, saying &quot;About halfway through, it got really silly&quot; and that scripts were met with &quot;peals of laughter&quot; from the cast. A year after it ended, he was interviewed when promoting another project and he described RTE as &quot;a gross, ill conceived waste of money&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 275721, member: 673"] I loved the miniseries but I only managed a few episodes of the series. I found scenes like Jilly sharing a bottle of champagne in a prison cell with her old cellmate to be just stupid. As Willie said, the characters hadn't earned their popularity yet. When you saw Alexis doing similar in her prison cell in season 5 of [I]Dynasty[/I], you just rolled with it as the show had established itself in the realm of camp. But for RTE to do it straight out the gate, it just felt a bit try-hard. Peta Toppano spoke out in TV Week, to complain about the number of sex scenes in the show and said she'd led a group of actresses who'd lodged a formal complaint about it. She said "It would have been more honest for us to have done nude scenes than to run around in a pair of lace knickers. Maybe they thought that sex and naughtiness would sell RTE but I think it's quite tedious". She also complained about the long working hours. Nicki Paull described it as "the most intense experience I've had. The show underwent such a change from what we were originally told. I'm someone who needs a very clear and definite idea of the role I'm expected to play. I'd be very wary about anything like that happening again". Last but not least, Daniel Abineri told TV Week that for the last ten weeks of filming, he'd been playing it for laughs, saying "About halfway through, it got really silly" and that scripts were met with "peals of laughter" from the cast. A year after it ended, he was interviewed when promoting another project and he described RTE as "a gross, ill conceived waste of money". [/QUOTE]

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