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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 167254" data-attributes="member: 23">The latter two series of After Henry have now bubbled away to their natural conclusion.The one disappointment with the final series was the revised theme, which sounds like an ersatz cover for one of the cheap TV theme compilation tapes I had a penchant for in the Eighties. The ones from artists with names like &quot;The Silva Screen Orchestra&quot; that sounded like they were recorded on a Bontempi in someone&#039;s basement bedroom. Even the font for the text in the opening credits looked like a cheap copy. Thankfully, the content of the latter episodes was as consistently good as the previous three. Even with the gap between Series Three and Four, the writing remained strong. The continuity has been appreciated, such as in Clare&#039;s Australian sojourn and dalliance with a married man. Speaking of things Australian, barely an episode went by in the latter series without a mention of Neighbours or Home And Away. Sometimes both. With Eleanor so hooked on them, it&#039;s a wonder she didn&#039;t recognise Home And Away&#039;s very own Greg Benson showing up as a down under relative of Vera Polling. Despite eventually using the word &quot;gay&quot; to describe himself in the third series with even Eleanor using it by the fourth (having to explain the term to Vera), Russell remains a rare example of an LGBT sitcom character who, as I said at the start of watching, is not defined by his sexuality. He&#039;s the only character on the series who is in a long-term, stable relationship from start to finish with no upheavals. But even that relationship doesn&#039;t define him. Bob remained one of the series&#039; unseen characters, and enjoyably so.Joan Sanderson was a joy in this series, with every scene - every line - a gem. It&#039;s made me keen to seek out some more of her work soon. She even handled the series&#039; one (some would say unnecessary) expletive with old school grace (&quot;I&#039;ll nail the bastard&quot;, she said of the married man she assumed her daughter was seeing). It&#039;s a little sad to think that Sanderson had died before the final series aired, but wonderful that she left us with some perfectly pitched verbal sparring with her onscreen relatives and the ever patient Vera Polling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 167254, member: 23"] The latter two series of [I]After Henry [/I]have now bubbled away to their natural conclusion. The one disappointment with the final series was the revised theme, which sounds like an ersatz cover for one of the cheap TV theme compilation tapes I had a penchant for in the Eighties. The ones from artists with names like "The Silva Screen Orchestra" that sounded like they were recorded on a Bontempi in someone's basement bedroom. Even the font for the text in the opening credits looked like a cheap copy. Thankfully, the content of the latter episodes was as consistently good as the previous three. Even with the gap between Series Three and Four, the writing remained strong. The continuity has been appreciated, such as in Clare's Australian sojourn and dalliance with a married man. Speaking of things Australian, barely an episode went by in the latter series without a mention of [I]Neighbours[/I] or [I]Home And Away.[/I] Sometimes both. With Eleanor so hooked on them, it's a wonder she didn't recognise [I]Home And Away's[/I] very own Greg Benson showing up as a down under relative of Vera Polling. Despite eventually using the word "gay" to describe himself in the third series with even Eleanor using it by the fourth (having to explain the term to Vera), Russell remains a rare example of an LGBT sitcom character who, as I said at the start of watching, is not defined by his sexuality. He's the only character on the series who is in a long-term, stable relationship from start to finish with no upheavals. But even that relationship doesn't define him. Bob remained one of the series' unseen characters, and enjoyably so. Joan Sanderson was a joy in this series, with every scene - every line - a gem. It's made me keen to seek out some more of her work soon. She even handled the series' one (some would say unnecessary) expletive with old school grace ("I'll nail the bastard", she said of the married man she assumed her daughter was seeing). It's a little sad to think that Sanderson had died before the final series aired, but wonderful that she left us with some perfectly pitched verbal sparring with her onscreen relatives and the ever patient Vera Polling. [/QUOTE]

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