IdleRich
IdleRich
After re-watching The Singing Detective recently and concluding that it's still the best thing I've ever seen on telly (making a post-modern musical that is so emotionally affecting is an incredible achievement) I wondered why I had never checked out his other stuff. So we watched Lipstick On Your Collar on 4OD - also great fun but doesn't quite have the same multi-stranded depth that makes TSD such a masterpiece.
Yesterday I started on Karaoke which looks promising so far if quite similar to TSD in that it stars a playwright (as opposed to a novelist) who is having trouble separating his real life from his plays, possibly due to illness causing him to hallucinate. As usual the weird bits provide the excuse to get in Potter's trademark rock n roll songs without necessitating the same kind of suspension of disbelief which a musical usually requires.
Any other Potter fans here?
Also, this seems particularly relevant somehow
Yesterday I started on Karaoke which looks promising so far if quite similar to TSD in that it stars a playwright (as opposed to a novelist) who is having trouble separating his real life from his plays, possibly due to illness causing him to hallucinate. As usual the weird bits provide the excuse to get in Potter's trademark rock n roll songs without necessitating the same kind of suspension of disbelief which a musical usually requires.
Any other Potter fans here?
Also, this seems particularly relevant somehow