Gentleman Jack
I have sadly reached the end of the first season of Gentleman Jack. I say "sadly" because what a wonderful and interesting ride these episodes have been.
The season ends where I knew it would it end thanks to spoileriffic videos on You Tube but I don't know if I could've stood the pressure of watching this series and not knowing where Anne Lister and Ann Walker would end up.
The last episode of the season includes Anne Lister's adventures in Copenhagen in the court of the Queen of Denmark. Am I reading too much into things to suggest that the Queen was flirting with Anne?
Receiving word that her beloved aunt is at death's door, Anne returns to Halifax. Hey, her aunt is not dying now, great. And Anne Lister has a beautifully set hill top reunion with Ann Walker who has extricated herself from Scotland. With Murray Gold's epic soundtrack welling up in the background, Ann Walker says she will marry Anne Lister and they move together for an "oh hell yeah!" kiss!
The season ends with Anne and Ann exchanging rings in their carriage, entering a church to take the sacrament of holy communion together then off to Shibden Hall to plan their future together.
Awwww!
But there is still much unresolved that will need to be navigated in a future season. I feel sorry for those who watched this series in 2019 and still waiting 2 years later for a follow up. The word is season 2 is in production but not when it will be ready to be seen. I'm guessing sometime in 2022.
Anne Lister's efforts to do something with the coal on the Shibden Estate is still a tangled up mess. The Rawsons are still stealing the coal from under her feet and her plans to start her own coal mining operation has run into a crap ton of problems. Since she used Shibden Hall as collateral to finance the operation, this puts Lister's estate at risk.
Speaking of her estate, one of Lister's tenants is guilty of murder. Granted it was a good murder, more or less, as it was Thomas Snowden's drunk abusive father who Thomas fed to the pigs. The official story is that the old man ran off to America and to be honest, the family is better off for it. Thomas is a far better care taker of the property than his dad ever was and his mother seems way happier not being beaten every other day. Thomas's visiting uncle threatens to expose some holes in the "ran off to America" story.
And while Anne and Ann are heading off to wedded bliss, I'm sure Ann Walker's family is not going to accept this quietly. Between some of them just being judgmental moralists (ladies just don't do that!) and others just trying to finagle their hooks into Ann Walker's considerable assets and wealth, Ann Walker will likely still be in the bullseye of a lot of unwanted scrutiny.
The quiet, beautiful end of season 1 aside, I suspect season 2 will have more than it's fair share of obstacles on it's way to "happily ever after".
Kevin Can F**k Himself
My daughter Randie and I watched the debut episodes of Kevin Can F**k Himself and we've reached on undeniable conclusion.
Kevin can just go and straight up fuck himself!
Here's the wind up: Kevin is a doughy man-child living in a brightly lit sit com with Allison, a wife who is way out of his league in terms of intelligence and looks. It looks like every other multi-camera studio shot sit com on network television.
Here's the pitch: whenever Kevin is not around, the show changes into a single camera show with darker lighting and muted colors. Allison has had it up to here with Kevin's selfish lifestyle and she never gets anything she wants out of life.
She hopes in vain for a better life with Kevin but those hopes keep getting dashed. So she arrives at a different goal: a better life without Kevin.
She's gonna kill him.
Man, Kevin deserves to die. Caught up in his own petty desires in life, he blunders and barges through life with no concern for the consequences to Allison.
The only thing in their decrepit home that Allison cares about is the living room coffee table she got from Pottery Barn. Kevin smashes the table and repairs it (badly) with duct tape.
Allison wants a new house, Kevin has spent all the savings so there's no money for a down payment.
For their 10th anniversary, Allison just wants to go out to dinner. Kevin wants (and gets) a wicked "anniversa-rager" party.
Kevin brings home a dog as part of some wacky sit com scheme. Allison becomes attached to the dog. Kevin gets rid of the dog when it no longer suits his wacky sit com scheme, totally oblivious to Allison's affection for the dog.
The scene shifts between multi-camera sit com/single camera drama are very effectively done. Kevin does some stupid, boorish thing in the bright lights of the sitcom then smash cut to Allison in muted colors and the dark lighting of her drama, once more alone and hurt as Kevin once more ignores her.
Seriously...
Kevin can just go and straight up fuck himself!
I've linked up to a You Tube video featurette about the show.
And that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase. Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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