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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Chilling" data-source="post: 241036" data-attributes="member: 33">I never really noticed the Americanism in Vicious but maybe I'm become immune to it after years of watching American TV shows but the examples you gave would have annoyed me had I noticed them.Where I felt the series failed was that there was little light and shade in the relationship between the 2 main characters. They were little more than 2 camp, acerbic gay stereotypes who were just nasty to each other and rarely showed any affection to each other so I couldn't help thinking why are they still together putting up with this? As a premise for humour, it's funny for maybe one episode but the novelty of seeing 2 giants of the British acting community behaving in this way wore off very quickly.In some ways the show reminded me of George and Mildred because they were another couple who constantly threw insults at each other but the difference with the Ropers is that you always felt they had a underlying fondness, if not love, for each other but I never felt that with Freddie and Stuart. As I couldn't accept their relationship as being realistic I found it hard to warm to this sitcom and that's before I take into account the old fashioned staging and filming of the show and the dire scripts.</blockquote>

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