The Only Couch Potato Who Wears a Trenchcoat

“The Radio Times speaks of ‘swearing and nudity… in skiploads right from the opening scenes’, but I’m not getting my hopes up too high.”

“My instinct is that this one-off final episode will be a skin-free zone (apart from maybe some of those ultra-realistic prosthetics that allow the series to show all those grizzly scenes of childbirth going wrong!), but I will tune in on the off-chance that Tamzin Malleson will finally show some flesh.”

“ITV4 has Carlito’s Way at 11.00pm. Another movie that makes an appearance regularly, this was only on a few months ago, but features Penelope Ann Miller’s best nudity, which makes it worth seeing in my opinion.”

These and other film and television musings can be found at the blog, In the Best Possible Taste.

Never Underestimate the Humorlessness of the Internet Public

John Sutherland: “The piece was, I believed, mildly sarcastic. YouTubers were not amused. For a day or two, I was YouTube-famous. The contents of their video responses – which at the time, could all be summoned instantaneously from the Wikipedia entry – are bruisingly abusive. ‘Die! You asshole!’ rants one paunchy YouTuber, jowls quivering with homicidal rage. ‘Your head is so far up your arse you can see your tonsils,’ offers another, with a show of that less-than-Wildean wit for which YouTube is justly famous. (They seem for some reason to be obsessed with the rectal tube.)”