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I kind of feel like I'm doing this in entirely the wrong order - I've already watched all the episodes, squeed extensively on tumblr, and written fic, but somehow my fannishness is incompletely expressed until I've done a long-ass post about it on livejournal. So, let me ramble on a bit about A Touch of Cloth. It's a British comedy that has run for three series, if you can call TWO 45-minute episodes each year a "series". So, 4.5 hours over three years. That's even more pathetic than Sherlock *g*. Anyway. The name is a play on A Touch of Frost, since the main character's name is DI Jack Cloth, except that the term "touching cloth" is a charming expression referring to the act of needing to go to the bathroom so badly that... let's just say I hate toilet humour, but that's thankfully as close as it gets. Haha.
I don't much care for British cop dramas either, but the appeal of this show is that it's basically every British cop show you've never seen. Somehow the tropes are still incredibly familiar. After the brutal murder of his wife, DI Jack Cloth (John Hannah, all greying and Scottish, like a Capaldi) retreats into alcoholic stupor and framed news clippings (including one headlined, "Local cop obsessed with news clippings"), only to be dragged back to work by his new partner, an intense DC Anne Oldman (pronounced An Old Man, a joke that has run through all three series, and yet somehow never gets old), played by Suranne Jones. I found the entire cast instantly appealing, which is also a big plus. There's earnest Asap Qureshi (Navin Chowdhry), who is basically a font of exposition, Des Hairihan (Adrian Bower) who is unsurprisingly obsessed with the female form, Dr Natasha Sachet (Daisy Beaumont), the ice-cold mortician who shares a smouldering "history" with Jack, and, in a direct assault on all my kinks, arrogant boss ACC Tom Boss (Julian Rhind-Tutt), with his flowing coat and terrible puns and penchant for walking straight through crime scene tape rather than under it.
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Oh, and at least three of the main characters are canonically bisexual, and not at all bothered about it, thank you very much. I haven't seen its like since Torchwood *g*
Please. Watch the trailer. And if you want more, head over to enigmaticpenguinofdeath's post (with links!). Or you can check out a few more random clips on Youtube.
I don't much care for British cop dramas either, but the appeal of this show is that it's basically every British cop show you've never seen. Somehow the tropes are still incredibly familiar. After the brutal murder of his wife, DI Jack Cloth (John Hannah, all greying and Scottish, like a Capaldi) retreats into alcoholic stupor and framed news clippings (including one headlined, "Local cop obsessed with news clippings"), only to be dragged back to work by his new partner, an intense DC Anne Oldman (pronounced An Old Man, a joke that has run through all three series, and yet somehow never gets old), played by Suranne Jones. I found the entire cast instantly appealing, which is also a big plus. There's earnest Asap Qureshi (Navin Chowdhry), who is basically a font of exposition, Des Hairihan (Adrian Bower) who is unsurprisingly obsessed with the female form, Dr Natasha Sachet (Daisy Beaumont), the ice-cold mortician who shares a smouldering "history" with Jack, and, in a direct assault on all my kinks, arrogant boss ACC Tom Boss (Julian Rhind-Tutt), with his flowing coat and terrible puns and penchant for walking straight through crime scene tape rather than under it.
( Read more... )
Oh, and at least three of the main characters are canonically bisexual, and not at all bothered about it, thank you very much. I haven't seen its like since Torchwood *g*
Please. Watch the trailer. And if you want more, head over to enigmaticpenguinofdeath's post (with links!). Or you can check out a few more random clips on Youtube.
