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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 241027" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>It seems that every post I make about <em>Vicious</em> is going to be more of the same. Nice premise. Endearing characters. Wonderful actors. Sub-par writing.</p><p></p><p>I've now watched through to the last-but-one episode. Or technically (since the finale is nowhere to be seen) the last-but-one-but-one. It's very easy to understand why the series ended when it did.</p><p></p><p>The reliance on the f**ks and shits is increasing. Mason and Penelope are now getting in on the swearing, which became very old very quickly. Is it meant to be edgy? Shocking? Outrageous? It's none of these, though might have been had it aired three decades earlier when alternative comedy was a thing. Even then it failed to hit the mark of being funny much of the time.</p><p></p><p>Having noticed them, I'm now hyper aware of the Americanisms that pepper the dialogue (some of which might be contemporary British, but it amounts to the same thing). Characters "get mad" and have "fights". Or they are "excited for" their dance class. The most unforgivable example came in a flashback to the couple moving into their flat (or is it apartment?). Young Stuart had offered to get Young Freddie a cuppa. A short time later, Young Freddie pointed out he was "still waiting on that tea". This is in early Sixties Britain.</p><p></p><p>Shark jumped, I'm now quite keen for the series to end and not too bothered at all that the final special is nowhere to be found.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 241027, member: 23"] It seems that every post I make about [I]Vicious[/I] is going to be more of the same. Nice premise. Endearing characters. Wonderful actors. Sub-par writing. I've now watched through to the last-but-one episode. Or technically (since the finale is nowhere to be seen) the last-but-one-but-one. It's very easy to understand why the series ended when it did. The reliance on the f**ks and shits is increasing. Mason and Penelope are now getting in on the swearing, which became very old very quickly. Is it meant to be edgy? Shocking? Outrageous? It's none of these, though might have been had it aired three decades earlier when alternative comedy was a thing. Even then it failed to hit the mark of being funny much of the time. Having noticed them, I'm now hyper aware of the Americanisms that pepper the dialogue (some of which might be contemporary British, but it amounts to the same thing). Characters "get mad" and have "fights". Or they are "excited for" their dance class. The most unforgivable example came in a flashback to the couple moving into their flat (or is it apartment?). Young Stuart had offered to get Young Freddie a cuppa. A short time later, Young Freddie pointed out he was "still waiting on that tea". This is in early Sixties Britain. Shark jumped, I'm now quite keen for the series to end and not too bothered at all that the final special is nowhere to be found. [/QUOTE]
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