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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 71756" data-attributes="member: 23">Maybe it&#039;s me surrendering to the tone of the show, but You&#039;re Only Young Twice is going up in my estimation with each episode I watch. As I reach the middle of Series Three I find myself looking forward to watching and laughing quite regularly when I do.There&#039;s an inherent cosiness to the now-familiar setting. Even the women being held at gunpoint had a cosiness to it. And when there&#039;s an episode with rain pouring onto the windows it gets even cosier. Mount makes the most of Flora&#039;s every line and seems to have worked her way into full on battleaxe mode. No bad thing. She&#039;s a joy to watch. Coombs as Cissie continues to be the weak link for me. She seems to be written dopier with each episode which no longer feels believeable. It&#039;s reached the point where her unthinking comments and actions cause so much damage she seems at times more malicious than ingenuous. Dolly, too, has been written more broadly at times - recent episodes seem to have upped the emphasis on her love of the bottle with lots of slurring and hiccupping - but it works for the character. Lally Bowers is such a fun watch, so I believe it. The Dolly/Mildred double-act is great. They&#039;re like a snide little Greek chorus, willing Flora&#039;s schemes to fail and taking great delight when they do. Katy has disappeared without comment, which is a shame. Her role was small enough for it to continue to work without her, but just having her sitting at the table or cutting the queue to get into the bathroom brought a nice energy that I miss. Charmaine May&#039;s Miss Milton has gone from Penelope Keith to Margaret Thatcher. Her resemblance to the Milk Snatcher was quite uncanny in the last episode I watched. See 2:40 in the video below for evidence:[MEDIA=youtube]dAbCDw_spsA[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 71756, member: 23"] Maybe it's me surrendering to the tone of the show, but [I]You're Only Young Twice [/I]is going up in my estimation with each episode I watch. As I reach the middle of Series Three I find myself looking forward to watching and laughing quite regularly when I do. There's an inherent cosiness to the now-familiar setting. Even the women being held at gunpoint had a cosiness to it. And when there's an episode with rain pouring onto the windows it gets even cosier. Mount makes the most of Flora's every line and seems to have worked her way into full on battleaxe mode. No bad thing. She's a joy to watch. Coombs as Cissie continues to be the weak link for me. She seems to be written dopier with each episode which no longer feels believeable. It's reached the point where her unthinking comments and actions cause so much damage she seems at times more malicious than ingenuous. Dolly, too, has been written more broadly at times - recent episodes seem to have upped the emphasis on her love of the bottle with lots of slurring and hiccupping - but it works for the character. Lally Bowers is such a fun watch, so I believe it. The Dolly/Mildred double-act is great. They're like a snide little Greek chorus, willing Flora's schemes to fail and taking great delight when they do. Katy has disappeared without comment, which is a shame. Her role was small enough for it to continue to work without her, but just having her sitting at the table or cutting the queue to get into the bathroom brought a nice energy that I miss. Charmaine May's Miss Milton has gone from Penelope Keith to Margaret Thatcher. Her resemblance to the Milk Snatcher was quite uncanny in the last episode I watched. See 2:40 in the video below for evidence: [MEDIA=youtube]dAbCDw_spsA[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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