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So ITV were doing a thing about Lord Lucan, which I watched because it was Wednesday and I was bored. It didn't help much with the boredom part.
The actual crime of Lord Lucan wasn't anything out of the ordinary, the thing that elevated it into the public consciousness was Lucan's position (Earl of somewhere or other) and the fact that he vanished without a trace, probably with the help of various other members of the elite. So it's not a very promising start to something.
And I think they tried by having Rory Kinear play Lucan. And Kinear is a good actor. But even good actors can't save a thing when you don't give them anything to do. And they didn't. There was lots of telling, not showing about Lucan and lots of Kinear staring off into the distance.
They also seem to have decided to put much of the blame on the person played by Christopher Eccleston, who did a bang up job of sinister.
There were also, shall we say, certain liberties taken with the known facts.
The actual crime of Lord Lucan wasn't anything out of the ordinary, the thing that elevated it into the public consciousness was Lucan's position (Earl of somewhere or other) and the fact that he vanished without a trace, probably with the help of various other members of the elite. So it's not a very promising start to something.
And I think they tried by having Rory Kinear play Lucan. And Kinear is a good actor. But even good actors can't save a thing when you don't give them anything to do. And they didn't. There was lots of telling, not showing about Lucan and lots of Kinear staring off into the distance.
They also seem to have decided to put much of the blame on the person played by Christopher Eccleston, who did a bang up job of sinister.
There were also, shall we say, certain liberties taken with the known facts.
