Life In Squares - BBC 2

anyonefortennis · 27/07/15 - 21:22

The beeb are very fond of their depressing period dramas lately. The actresses playing Virginia Woolf and Nessas pronunciation is poor. James Norton looks so different with dark hair and eyebrows. I thought the Bloomsbury set were supposed to be raunchy and avant-garde. They seem tame to todays standards.

Is Phoebe Fox another member of the Fox acting dynasty?

anyonefortennis · 27/07/15 - 22:00

Well that was spiffing wot wot. Do these writers think they are going to shock us by showing bisexuals having sex with men and women, women breastfeeding and saying the f word. It feels like they added these scenes for the sake of it.

NaturalDancer · 27/07/15 - 22:05

Boring! Too much sex, mostly just sex - maybe I'm just jealous haha

anyonefortennis · 27/07/15 - 22:07

NaturalDancer wrote: »

Boring! Too much sex, mostly just sex - maybe I'm just jealous haha

lol

I guess they had to keep warm somehow in 1906.

NaturalDancer · 27/07/15 - 22:10

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[Deleted User] · 27/07/15 - 22:38

anyonefortennis wrote: »

The beeb are very fond of their depressing period dramas lately. The actresses playing Virginia Woolf and Nessas pronunciation is poor. James Norton looks so different with dark hair and eyebrows. I thought the Bloomsbury set were supposed to be raunchy and avant-garde. They seem tame to todays standards.

Is Phoebe Fox another member of the Fox acting dynasty?

Shockingly unshocking. I've had raunchier shops in Sainsburys on a Thursday night
than their weekly get-togethers.

Should have called it Any Hole's a Goal. Or Life is Square.

mike65 · 27/07/15 - 22:50

anyonefortennis wrote: »

The beeb are very fond of their depressing period dramas lately. The actresses playing Virginia Woolf and Nessas pronunciation is poor. James Norton looks so different with dark hair and eyebrows. I thought the Bloomsbury set were supposed to be raunchy and avant-garde. They seem tame to todays standards.

Its fascinating to consider how and why those who dramatise a theme do so in a given way. After all one could take a very different approach to a group of "radical" boho creative types all living in well heeled misery.

Predictably enough the BBC have decided to be soft focus and dully respectable as much for the export market as any other reason I suspect.

Flukie · 27/07/15 - 22:56

anyonefortennis wrote: »

Is Phoebe Fox another member of the Fox acting dynasty?

I automatically wondered that as well!
She isn't.

Phoebe Fox is the daughter of actors Stuart Fox and Prue Clarke.

vauxhall1964 · 27/07/15 - 23:15

anyonefortennis wrote: »

Well that was spiffing wot wot. Do these writers think they are going to shock us by showing bisexuals having sex with men and women, women breastfeeding and saying the f word. It feels like they added these scenes for the sake of it.

The beeb are very fond of their depressing period dramas lately. The actresses playing Virginia Woolf and Nessas pronunciation is poor. James Norton looks so different with dark hair and eyebrows. I thought the Bloomsbury set were supposed to be raunchy and avant-garde. They seem tame to todays standards.e f word. It feels like they added these scenes for the sake of it.

Make your mind up. Are you complaining the BBC made it too 'raunchy' just 'for the sake of it' or not raunchy enough because the BBC made it too 'tame'? Or maybe you just like complaining?

The_Bonobo · 28/07/15 - 00:46

I felt this was rather clunky and frankly boring. The characters were so pretentious they seemed
like caricatures. They were also all so unlikable that I didn't care about any of them. I was hoping
this would be good but was very disappointed.

Clarkie66 · 28/07/15 - 08:01

I seem to be in the minority but I really enjoyed it and I thought that the acting was great.

[Deleted User] · 28/07/15 - 08:02

Clarkie66 wrote: »

I seem to be in the minority but I really enjoyed it and I thought that the acting was great.

I really enjoyed it too.

[Deleted User] · 28/07/15 - 08:15

grondagronda wrote: »

Shockingly unshocking. I've had raunchier shops in Sainsburys on a Thursday night
than their weekly get-togethers.

Should have called it Any Hole's a Goal. Or Life is Square.

Ahem, may I ask which branch of Sainsburys you refer to? Just curious you understand.:D

gomezz · 28/07/15 - 09:33

The_Bonobo wrote: »

The characters were so pretentious they seemed
like caricatures

From what I know of this lot it was very true to life.

Do we get to learn the dark secret that makes the sisters so glad that their father had died? Is it as dark as we are being led on to believe?

anyonefortennis · 28/07/15 - 10:03

At least Virginia Woolfs nose was more realistic looking than when Nicole Kidman played her in The Hours.

mike65 · 28/07/15 - 10:46

gomezz wrote: »

From what I know of this lot it was very true to life.

Do we get to learn the dark secret that makes the sisters so glad that their father had died? Is it as dark as we are being led on to believe?

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Leicester_Hunk · 28/07/15 - 11:20

Well I fell asleep about 9.20 and woke up to see a load of hairdressers on the telly.

Is it worth me iPlayering it?

I saw Phoebe Fox in the Woman in Black film on New Year's Day.

Chiltons Cane · 28/07/15 - 11:32

Clarkie66 wrote: »

I seem to be in the minority but I really enjoyed it and I thought that the acting was great.

I liked it too, took me a while to get into it but by the end i found i couldn't wait for next weeks!
Watched for the wonderful James Norton and as always he was superb and just a little bit gorgeous

stud u like · 28/07/15 - 11:47

How tiresome! Dull as ditch water and as dry as a burned cake.

Such a shame! The books I have about them are a lot more fun. Another example of a poor transition.

Joy Dean · 28/07/15 - 12:46

We recorded it and have just watched about half of it. The filming of it seems quite dark; I want to switch on a light.

NaturalDancer · 28/07/15 - 13:18

Leicester_Hunk wrote: »

Well I fell asleep about 9.20 and woke up to see a load of hairdressers on the telly.

Is it worth me iPlayering it?

I saw Phoebe Fox in the Woman in Black film on New Year's Day.

Hard to answer that. Initially I thought it was going to be quite good but really it's mostly just sex. You should watch it and see. At least you only need to watch 40 mins or so, then if you don't like it, use 2 hours of your life in a better way the next 2 weeks ;-)

Chiltons Cane · 28/07/15 - 15:04

NaturalDancer wrote: »

Hard to answer that. Initially I thought it was going to be quite good but really it's mostly just sex. You should watch it and see. At least you only need to watch 40 mins or so, then if you don't like it, use 2 hours of your life in a better way the next 2 weeks ;-)

I didn't think it was mostly just sex, in fact i expected more!

MillyC · 28/07/15 - 15:14

I enjoyed it and will be watching next week

NaturalDancer · 28/07/15 - 15:14

Chiltons Cane wrote: »

I didn't think it was mostly just sex, in fact i expected more!

That's how I found it. You mean you expected more sex? Then it would've been even more boring than it was.

bspace · 28/07/15 - 16:15

Well I must say it managed to confirm my long held view that the Bloomsbury set where little more than a tedious bunch of upper middle class dilettantes. A backwater of artistic development worthy of little attention except by those who get excited about the notion that people can be attracted to the same or even both sexes.

I'm not sure this was the programme maker's intent but they certainly made a good job of it.

mikebuk · 28/07/15 - 19:24

I would assume there will be more sex of the lady kind on it's way as it's Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.

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