Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Mistresses
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Someone recommended the British miniseries "Mistresses" to me and, dutiful listener that I am, I snagged the first disc from Netflix. I've now watched all of season 1 and two episodes of season 2 and am still not sure how to evaluate it. The actors are fantastic (Sharon Small, Sarah Parish, Orla Brady and Shelley Conn (a great niece of Merle Oberon's)) and the production values are high. It's glitzy at times, as the houses and restaurants everyone frequents are lush and lovely supposedly because the people have good jobs or lots of money from other sources. But the characters are amazingly adept at making really bad decisions and coming to ghastly conclusions about their families and lives. Their extraordinary ability to be idiotic and make bad judgments really strains my credulity. On the other hand, we vicariously experience bad choices being made and then played out which may have instructive usefulness or even merit similar to watching horror films. My real problem is that it's so much fun to watch these women go through their lives making appalling choices and drawing ridiculous conclusions and I can't wait for them to shoot the third season and release it on dvd!
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