The second part of this fourth series of Jago and Litefoot sees a literary classic individual enter the story. Thankfully we got a bit more of Colin Baker but it was more of a cameo than anything else. We learn that he and Leela were responsible for Jago and Litefoot being in Brighton in the previous story. The story does involve Mr Oscar Wilde which is someone that I never would have expected to be used in one of these stories. The story has a nice set up because we arrive at Litefoot’s house and it’s not long before Wilde is introduced into the story. Baker’s character instigates what happens in this story by giving Jago tickets to see Wilde who is someone that he likes/admires a lot. I liked how there was an instant dislike of Wilde by Litefoot and it seemed like it was going to be another story where Jago drives the story as Litefoot is resorted to spending time with corpses.
What writer John Dorney has cleverly done is to make several lines very wordy. By that I mean using words that wouldn’t look out of place in Stephen Fry’s head. I can’t remember what they were but there was a moment when Oscar Wilde was talking and was rattling off a list of very big words and it seemed after a while that Dorney was having fun with this and it became a funny thing because of it. As Oscar Wilde, Alan Cox is very good and is arguably the best thing in this story. He delivers the long words like he says it all the time and comes across as a credible and believable Oscar Wilde. The regulars are on fine form again with Christopher Benjamin coming across as being given the most to do for the second story running. I still enjoyed his performance and liked how he was pretty much having a hissy fit because of Wilde.
I thought that Beautiful Things was a nice story but not quite on par with Jago in Love. I found the story to be quite interesting and moves along at the right pace. There were interesting characters and the directing was also enjoyable because the final scenes were highly atmospheric. I did quite like the ending as this series seems to have some quite nice cliff hangers. The different feel that this fourth series seems to have is still taking a bit to get use to but I can’t say that I dislike them. It does feel like they are building up to something big which will hopefully come.
What writer John Dorney has cleverly done is to make several lines very wordy. By that I mean using words that wouldn’t look out of place in Stephen Fry’s head. I can’t remember what they were but there was a moment when Oscar Wilde was talking and was rattling off a list of very big words and it seemed after a while that Dorney was having fun with this and it became a funny thing because of it. As Oscar Wilde, Alan Cox is very good and is arguably the best thing in this story. He delivers the long words like he says it all the time and comes across as a credible and believable Oscar Wilde. The regulars are on fine form again with Christopher Benjamin coming across as being given the most to do for the second story running. I still enjoyed his performance and liked how he was pretty much having a hissy fit because of Wilde.
I thought that Beautiful Things was a nice story but not quite on par with Jago in Love. I found the story to be quite interesting and moves along at the right pace. There were interesting characters and the directing was also enjoyable because the final scenes were highly atmospheric. I did quite like the ending as this series seems to have some quite nice cliff hangers. The different feel that this fourth series seems to have is still taking a bit to get use to but I can’t say that I dislike them. It does feel like they are building up to something big which will hopefully come.
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