Baptiste 2

[terminal7]

Julian Baptiste first featured in the Missing - an excellent BBC series some 7 years ago. He then re-appeared 2019 in Baptiste - also very good apart from a gurning classic by James Nesbitt. And now - I assume shot during the pandemic - Baptiste 2. This is truly awful - that I can but recommend it as so bad that it is compulsive. The script is beautifully trite, the plot holes are innumerable, the background music is excruciating - it really is a laugh a minute stuff. To top that all off - that wonderful actress Fiona Shaw has decided to out gurn James Nesbitt. She even decides to let out a little of her Irish accent at times to keep us all on our toes.

There are some tremendously awful scenes (Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls quality) - I will give it 2/3 weeks before recommending some beauties - as really don't want to spoil the fun for other Fools - then maybe a competition for the best worst scene?

T7

[wanderer]

I agree. It's utterly awful. Such a shame after the excellent first series The Missing.

[Allitnil]

Fully agree except that Nesbitt's gurning was in the first series of The Missing. It was Tom Hollander who made the mistake of appearing in the first spin-off.

[terminal7]

Nesbitt's gurning was in the first series of The Missing

- too true.

Of course Nesbitt managed to outgurn himself in Bloodlands more recently.

T7