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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 335020" data-attributes="member: 23">Series Two Episodes Three to Five After a choppy start, the sequel series clicked with me with Episode Three. I think it helped that I got my doubts about the series down in black and white which helped me get some perspective around it all and probably lower expectations. There’s also the fact that the series is now back in England which helps it feel tonally closer to the first.There’s an awful lot going on, much of which I neglected to mention when covering the first couple of episodes *probably true of the first series as well). It’s a true skein, with multiple perspectives that are offshoots from or somehow connected to the widows’ own stories, and the ways in which they’re tied - particularly in this run of episodes - feels soap operatic in involving coincidence or convenience. Take Shirley’s family: her mother Audrey is now in a relationship with a dodgy geezer of whom Shirley disapproves, who just happens to be a member of Harry’s gang and gearing up for his next big job. He’s even roped Shirley’s unwitting dopey younger brother into helping him fix a car that Harry had run someone over with, killing them (more on that in a bit). Meanwhile, Shirley herself is romantically involved with another key member of Harry’s gang. Not that she suspects, of course. Dolly and Bella have seen both men in context of their association with Harry (they’ve rented a secret hideout directly next to Harry’s secret hideout so they can spy on his meetings), but they just missed seeing him when he came to collect Shirley for a date. Then there’s Vic Morgan whom Dolly initially hired to track down Harry. His loyalties seem fluid and he’s gone to George Resnick (Detective as was. Still hospitalised after his beating, and now divorcing his nasty wife, but more interested in Harry Rawlings than ever) offering to keep him informed if they can work something out with the reward. I shouldn’t be surprised if Vic knows some of Harry’s gang as well. He’s wooing Dolly to keep her close and get more intel, but are his feelings developing into something genuine? Since Vic has his own boat (on which Dolly got humorously wet and his leather jacket got humorously ruined) and is a bit of a slime, it seems most appropriate that he’s played by none other than Howards’ Way’s future Ken Masters, Stephen Yardley. Among other familiar faces was Scottish yuppie Andy from EastEnders as a photographer to whom Shirley takes a fancy. Given she's not that dissimilar to Debs, perhaps he has a type.We’re also following the police investigation, now led by Fuller - Resnick’s colleague from original-recipe Widows. It’s hard to know who to root for, but since pretty much everyone’s out to get Harry, who is now firmly established as The Big Bad, perhaps they’re all singing from the same hymn sheet, albeit with different harmonies. continued…</blockquote>

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