#laurence fox
Nice legs. The Hole has that annoying must-have-man-at-any-cost “plot” and the police are depicted as less than clever, but the actors are charming. I love seeing Laurence play such a bouncy and carefree (well, at least until things go wrong) character for a change. And I love that this film shows more male than female nudity. I mean, how often does that happen?
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Geoff:What are you having then?
Mike: I’m not really hungry.
Geoff:You’ve got to have something eventually.
Food/eating = sex? Anyway, Geoff’s jealous because Mike wants to eat Liz’s sausages rather than the salty pasta he’s cooking. Erm… I think I’ll let that one simmer.
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Mike:You’re going in there?
Geoff:Of course I’m going in there. See you inside.
Everything is buttsex subtext. At least according to Sherlock meta.
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Don’t know why, but I thought I wouldn’t like pre-Lewis Laurence.
I was wrong.
Yum yum, as Cam would say.
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Alphabetical Reasons to Love Lewis, day 10!
James Hathaway: the world-music playing, rowing (Attaway Hathaway!), public-school-cheek-meets-lofty-Cambridge cleverclogs is the perfect complement to the down to Earth Lewis. Hathaway is The Gold Standard in Angsty, Priesty Detectives. (Even the New York Times said in their review of Granchester that Sidney Beckett is no Hathaway.) Buzzfeed’s list of the PBS’s hottest hunks placed Laurence Fox’s Hathaway at #1. “And he knows Latin too!” squeaked Liv Nash, who like the rest of us, has a hard time containing herself where Hathaway is concerned.
James quipped to Robbie in the pilot that he was too frivolous to be a priest, but we realize later that he could not reconcile his faith in God with the teachings of the church that led his gay friend Will to commit suicide. Unfortunately, that was not the beginning of James’ existential flu. He grew up on the Mortmaigne estate as the son of the groundskeeper. Robbie would come to learn the awful truth that children on the estate- possibly including James- were molested by the Lord of the manor, Augustus Mortmaigne. Indeed, Robbie knows James so well that he knows when James isn’t really on holiday but instead is roped into do-goodery with his churchy pals. I was surprised that Lewis never knew about his sister, Nell, a new character in series 9. (Nope, I didn’t buy that part at all.)
I tend to believe that Robbie and James’ relationship is a father/son type bro-mance, but certainly the people who ship them romantically are not imagining it either. One of the best scenes of the series is where the headmaster of the school they are investigating in Expiation thinks they are a same sex couple seeking to enroll their child. Hathaway says, “darling, I think we should explain…” Robbie even admits half-jokingly that in his retirement he and James could sail away on a dinghy together, except that James is too young. In any event, Laurence Fox’s twitter feed certainly perpetuates the ship. Believe me, as an American, Lozza’s Donald is the ONLY Donald I want to see or hear from for the remainder of the US election cycle. If only that could be the case!
I was happy for Sergeant Hathaway to move away from policing at the end of the “final” episode Intelligent Design as it seemed to make him so miserable. Hathaway thanks Lewis just as Morse asked Strange to do on his death bed so many years earlier. It was a tear-jerking-in-a-good-way ending to a show… and then the show came back for two more series. I still don’t know what to make of Inspector Hathaway, but the “final, and we really mean it this time, final” episode ends with James looking to the future.
My local PBS just rebroadcast the 1997 Rebecca, and I noticed that a secondary WGBH station is playing it tonight (9/21/17) at 9 with 2AM repeats on the main WGBH; so check your local listings!
Anyway, I didn’t realize before all the little nods to Rebecca in the Inspector Lewis episode Life Born of Fire. The reappearance of Rebecca is probably because it stars Game of Thrones actors (Charles Dance, Diana Rigg) but of course, there is also Emilia Fox looking just like Girl Hathaway. (I am still mad that Laurence’s cousin Emilia Fox didn’t play Nell Hathaway in series 9. It would have been too perfect!) And Emilia Fox’s mom Joanna David also played the 2nd Mrs. de Winter in a previous version; Joanna David played Morse’s ex-fiancée Susan. So there’s already a lot of fun Morse-verse connections before even considering Life Born of Fire.
Life Born of Fire co-stars Rachael Sterling as Zoe Kenneth, who burns down the house just like Mrs. Danvers, who was played by Sterling’s mom, Diana Rigg. And just for fun, here is Robbie Lewis’ Charles Dance impression, rescuing Hathaway from the fire. =)
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The Reclaim Pod: The Laurence Fox Show - Douglas Murray on Apple Podcasts
Laurence Fox discusses contemporary ideology with Douglas Murray. 24 May 2022.
