Anyone else watching this new one on PBS? Two old gay men who have been together for nearly 50 years. They're like an
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raventhom — 11 years ago(September 03, 2014 06:01 PM)
The 2 are great awesome actors and the fact they happen to be gay really doesn't enter into it. They are so good, I am surprised that they did this when they have so many films and probably;y more $$, Loved it
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avia2 — 10 years ago(June 20, 2015 08:24 AM)
Sorry to be the first negative post, but I absolutely hate it. I can't believe the fine actors agreed to the script, it's not remotely clever.
It reminded me of
Miranda
, but at least the latter is compensated by the main character who just looks like a disaster area.
You can't even laugh at the couple in
Vicious
, they're just miserable and use -
blankk23 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 10:11 AM)
I really wanted to like it because of the cast, but it was just camp-gay-misogynist stereotype. It struck me as the show they might have wanted to do thirty years ago, and finally can now, but they are thirty years too late.
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Harold_Robbins — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 02:10 PM)
Totally agree with blankk23 - I was incredibly disappointed with this, and all I saw was the Christmas special! Were these two great actors so desperate to act together that they setlled for this witless camp-fest? Did they have sudden, unexpected expenses requiring a quick paycheck? Whatever, I was truly embarassed for both of them. I wasn't surprised to learn that most reviewers savaged this show.
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vinsane — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 06:46 PM)
I think you're spot-on. It would have been more at home in the mid-seventies. I mean, it still would have been rubbish; but, the sense of shameful disappointment in it all might have been less somehow.
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Byrdz — 10 years ago(September 08, 2015 12:50 PM)
On PBS here, last season, they showed
Last Tango in Halifax
followed immediately by
Vicious
. All they needed to do was follow that with
Cadfael
or
I, Cladius
for a true Derek Jacobi festival.
He filmed the first two series in the same time period. Interesting seeing the two so very different characters back-to-back.