Just watched the Season 2 finale of Elsbeth and obviously it's the campest thing ever committed to film, but everyone's prisoner numbers being the episode where they were the killer is a level of camp beyond what we can measure (never mind Elsbeth herself being prisoner 24602.)

"The road Lennon grew up in was called Menlove Avenue, and I can't decide if not making a joke about this is admirable restraint or a criminally missed opportunity" Theatre review: Please Please Me partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"A comedy-drama that wears the drama side lightly and reaps the benefits" Theatre review: Tender (Soho Theatre) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"A very Avenue Q brand of nostalgia" Theatre review: Avenue Q partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"A particularly sinister sex comedy" Theatre review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

Me noticing Tom Brooke sitting in the row behind me long before noticing Gary Oldman sitting in the row behind me is painfully on-brand for me.

"Order versus anarchy - where order comes across very much as the bad guy" Theatre review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"Garai is probably the first Nora to have to do all her most dramatic scenes in a naughty nurse's outfit" Theatre review: A Doll's House partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"Knows when to be restrained and when to go all out" Theatre review: The Authenticator partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"The chorus do their best in the rather awkward role of hovering around a young couple's relationship" Theatre review: Flyby partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

Pure theatrical Pentobarbital.

"A world part-real, part-memory, part-rewriting of history" Theatre review: Copenhagen partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"A smiling assassin" Theatre review: Henry V (RSC/RST) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"These energetic, grungy performances are a highlight of the evening, and certainly its most confident element" Theatre review: Teeth'N'Smiles partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"At last, the musical about antimicrobial resistance that someone, somewhere has presumably been clamouring for!" Theatre review: Lifeline partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

"Evidently, in Juliet's fantasies at least, this rivalry is of the heated variety" Theatre review: Romeo & Juliet (Empire Street Productions / Harold Pinter Theatre) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

Sometimes you watch a completely static Queen Mab speech and wonder how Jonjo O'Neill ever ended up giving birth to himself #IntervalSkeets

"Sitcom is a very effective genre for introducing much darker themes" Theatre review: Jaja's African Hair Braiding partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/04/thea...

Post something random or you’ll have an AWFUL April

"Entertaining and heartfelt" Theatre review: John Proctor is the Villain partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

At least April Fool's Day is a lot easier to navigate now that 99.9% of the pranks are people posting "I'm opening an Onlyfans."

"You dirty rat, why I oughtta punch ya right in the detective-hole!"

"So absorbingly charming and funny it leaves you fully exposed for the darker elements to really hit home" Theatre review: Welcome to Pemfort partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

"A gently funny and sad story that feels like a painting itself" Theatre review: Vincent in Brixton partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

Podcast ad that wants to build "a mentally healthy America," how do we break it to them that horse has bolted, fled, been caught and is currently a tube of Pritt-Stick?

"The stage is so full of rich people complaining on holiday, it's like The White Lotus with less rimming" Theatre review: Summerfolk partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

What kind of crochet-loving masochist would apply for this after seeing what happened to the first set of contestants? www.attitude.co.uk/culture/tom-...

"Where will you be keeping your Oscar Jessie?" "In a chest buried six feet deep on a desert island with the rest of my treasure."

Watching Luc Besson's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and I was not prepared for quite how hilariously deranged it is. Imagine having a century of Dracula adaptations to take inspiration from, and deciding the only thing worth keeping is the bouffant hairdo.

"An instinctive grasp of how horror, comedy and sex work together" Theatre review: It Walks Around The House At Night partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

"If Sylvia is crippled by newspapers, what hope is there for anyone with a smartphone?" Theatre review: Broken Glass partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

Shakespeare: "I will be remembered as the greatest writer of all time." Also Shakespeare: "I've got this joke about a civil orange."

"It can all feel a bit unfocused, but it does also make it unpredictable" Theatre review: Bird Grove partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

Why do multiple fragrances even exist? There's one thing you can smell of that is guaranteed to get you compliments, and it's Deep Heat.

"Trapped not on an island but in a story" Theatre review: The Tempest (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/03/thea...

"I can't imagine many people are coming to this for fireworks and surprises, so they won't be disappointed when they don't get them" Theatre review: Shadowlands partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Holding space with the undead" Theatre review: Dracula (Noël Coward Theatre) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Somehow even more wildly homoerotic than it was the first time around" Theatre review: American Psycho partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Jumps between the domestic comparisons to modern man and the brutal reality of our ancestors' lives" Theatre review: The Shitheads partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"I'm not saying he has major Dead Kid Symbolism, but he's dressed as Robert Sean Leonard as Puck in Dead Poets Society" Theatre review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"A financial thriller where you can't predict what's round the next corner" Theatre review: Man and Boy partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

I didn't know she'd worked on a farm.

"The way it muses on science and poetry makes the audience feel clever, as opposed to sneered at" Theatre review: Arcadia partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Like spending 100 minutes in the closing moments of Rent" Theatre review: Beautiful Little Fool partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Leaving you feeling like you've watched a story of hope, however many times its narrators assure you of the contrary" Theatre review: Maggots partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/02/thea...

"Revelling in its own stupidity" Theatre review: "Oh, Mary!" partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

"Goes somewhere a lot more human and moving" Theatre review: Guess How Much I Love You? partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...

The Globe's doing Dream, Much Ado AND As You Like It this summer? I thought they'd finally climbed out of the combined Enema Rice / Covid financial hole?

Deborah Mailman's headshot was definitely up on Jane Plough's wall.

"I'm having an existential breakdown after betraying everything I stand for BUT ALSO I'M HORNY." Theatre review: High Noon partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2026/01/thea...