4 episodes into Word of Honor and I couldn’t tell you what the plot was if my life depended on it, but Wen Kexing’s expression of mild distaste upon realizing that one of his murder victims had the AUDACITY to get blood on his hand is extremely good.
The Name Game: Now that I see that Jenna Coleman is set to play Johanna Constatine in The Sandman, I was reminded that Jenna has once starred in another series as another Joanna. Joanna Lindsay in The Cry. It’s spelled differently, but basically the same name. That got me to thinking that Jenna has often played characters with extremely similar names.
She has played an Ann (Deever in All My Sons) and an Annie (Desmond in Titanic)
She has played a Jasmine (Thomas in Emmerdale) and a Jasmine (in an audition script for Doctor Who)
She has played a ‘Drina’ (as in Alexandrina in Victoria) and a ‘Trina’ (as in Katrina in Me Before You)
She has played the aforementioned Joanna Lindsay in The Cry and the new Sandman character Johanna Constatine. And she will be playing a Joan (Bright in The War Room) in the next few months
She has played a Marie in The Serpent and a Maria in a public service announcement for the NSPCC about child abuse
All in all, that’s a LOT of similar sounding names. I wonder if she’s realized what she is doing. Maybe she’s superstitious. That wouldn’t be IMPOSSIBLE, I guess. Hahaha.
So I was thinking about how it’s pretty thoroughly established that Frenchie can’t read or write, but then we get to episode 5 and he a) identifies the party invitation and b) writes receipts as part of the pyramid scheme. The first one could be explained by what little we know of his background – he knows what a fancy party invitation looks like – but what about the receipts? I’ll admit, the possibility that Frenchie lied about his literacy level in order to avoid getting stuck with Lucius’ job was veryfunny to me, but I went back and looked and no:
No, he just drew pictures again. Which, first off, incredible, love that, but it does kind of make me wonder how he got away with it and the only thing I can think of is that he. That he told them the receipts were written in hieroglyphs.
And presumably a bunch of aristocrats were like “that sounds fake but I definitely don’t know enough about Egypt to dispute it, one half a pyramid please.”
