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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 353019" data-attributes="member: 23">Last night I watched the final instalment of Nolly and went on to watch The Real Nolly documentary about Noele's life (narrated by Helena Bonham Carter).Same here. It was wonderful.Not knowing the series at all well, I'd fully believed that Honour was a real character in Crossroads. I was slightly disappointed after watching the first Nolly to read that she wasn't as I'd been trying to remember the details of the dialogue so I could mentally compare if and when I got round to watching the actual episode.I agree the balance of humour and drama worked really well. There was a hint of satire to the Crossroads scenes in particular, but it felt lovingly satirical.Little details like the supers showing various exotic locations in the yellow Crossroads font (and in vintage 4:3 ratio) added a touch of camp, I thought. But in the best way. I especially loved that they went from "ABU DHABI" to "BANGKOK" to "BIRMINGHAM". Wonderful stuff!The Real Nolly showed a clip of an interview with Harty where she gave one of the same responses as on the bus when asked why she was sacked.Also, Anne Diamond was one of the participants in the documentary and it seems she and Noele were quite close, which was why she was proud to have been part of Noele's final interview.Once I'd seen it in the first episode, I simply couldn't unsee Rowena Wallace.Watching the drama and documentary back-to-back, I was struck by how differently the two spoke (and looked), but I also think HBC's performance was so convincing and she seemed to get the part so wholeheartedly it didn't matter to me that they didn't look and sound identical.Speaking of speech patterns, my biggest bugbear with Episode Three was that most of the young women playing the supporting cast of Gypsy (most notably the actress playing Fiona Fullerton*) spoke with ghastly 21st Century Kardashian/Markle vocal creak. I don't believe twentysomethings - especially British twentysomethings - would have spoken like this at the time and I wish more attention had been paid to training them out of this lazy, annoying affectation.* Out of curiosity, I just watched a FF interview circa 1987 (also featuring Peter Cook) to see how accurate it is. There is a very occasional hint of vocal fry at the end of a sentence, but nothing that jumps out unless one is looking for it. Certainly not enough for it to be used so heavily and to the extent it's the only thing I remember about her on Nolly. That's really nice. For me it's definitely stoked interest in watching the series.What gems.(Even if neither this nor Nolly, casts Sue Lloyd in a flattering light at all. I am certainly intrigued, though).</blockquote>

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