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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 150724" data-attributes="member: 23">There&#039;s a slightly bipolar element to Maggie And Her, I feel. And it comes directly from the two leads. Maggie&#039;s scenes with romantic partners or her school feel quite nuanced, well structured and quite real. They&#039;re played mostly straight and, apart from the laugh track, could fit into a drama of the time. The single woman juggling her personal and professional life reminds me a little of a later sitcom: Agony. But then there are the scenes with Irene Handl, and it becomes far broader and more stereotypically sitcom. Not that the scenes with Mrs P. are bad. But I find the scenes without her more absorbing. Handl has her charm though, and there are occasional glimpses of her corpsing (such as a scene in which she was doused with water from her bathroom). I think I even caught an ad lib from her when she was playing a homemade swingball indoors and ordered it to &quot;stop hitting me Bristols&quot; after it bashed her in the chest (another scene in which Handl is endearingly seen to laugh). A degree of continuity has been a welcome surprise. Particularly the storyline with Maggie&#039;s dalliance with a co-worker who turned out to be living with another woman. There were a good three episodes&#039; worth of material there: the initial romance leading to the discovery and then the aftermath in which Maggie attempted to take life less seriously. The most recent episode I&#039;ve watched featured Maggie&#039;s date with an older man played by Joss Ackland. This actually felt like another pilot, as it&#039;s easy to imagine this setup forming the premise of a series (as it did later with McKenzie&#039;s once and future co-star Anton Rodgers). Ackland had the episode&#039;s best line when, in response to Maggie telling him she was approaching thirty five, he asked &quot;From which direction?&quot;. And that Julia McKenzie sung theme song. It&#039;s starting to win me over, damn it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 150724, member: 23"] There's a slightly bipolar element to [I]Maggie And Her,[/I] I feel. And it comes directly from the two leads. Maggie's scenes with romantic partners or her school feel quite nuanced, well structured and quite real. They're played mostly straight and, apart from the laugh track, could fit into a drama of the time. The single woman juggling her personal and professional life reminds me a little of a later sitcom: [I]Agony[/I]. But then there are the scenes with Irene Handl, and it becomes far broader and more stereotypically sitcom. Not that the scenes with Mrs P. are bad. But I find the scenes without her more absorbing. Handl has her charm though, and there are occasional glimpses of her corpsing (such as a scene in which she was doused with water from her bathroom). I think I even caught an ad lib from her when she was playing a homemade swingball indoors and ordered it to "stop hitting me Bristols" after it bashed her in the chest (another scene in which Handl is endearingly seen to laugh). A degree of continuity has been a welcome surprise. Particularly the storyline with Maggie's dalliance with a co-worker who turned out to be living with another woman. There were a good three episodes' worth of material there: the initial romance leading to the discovery and then the aftermath in which Maggie attempted to take life less seriously. The most recent episode I've watched featured Maggie's date with an older man played by Joss Ackland. This actually felt like another pilot, as it's easy to imagine this setup forming the premise of a series (as it did later with McKenzie's once and future co-star Anton Rodgers). Ackland had the episode's best line when, in response to Maggie telling him she was approaching thirty five, he asked "From which direction?". And that Julia McKenzie sung theme song. It's starting to win me over, damn it. [/QUOTE]

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