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I thought it was okay - hardly a scathing satire, really. It took a while to get going: all that early stuff with Archer giving Paul Macartney song title ideas wasn't much better or smarter than the kind of thing I assume it was supposed to be parodying (Forrest Gump etc). But as it went on and became more surreal I think it found its stride. There some great little throwaway touches like the yellow 'call to witnesses' police sign familiar to all Londoners, but this time announcing the theft of a yellow police sign (this in the scene where Archer is running for Mayor and demonstrates his commitment to fight crime by relieveing a young tearaway of his catapault); or Mary giving her brilliantly unsubtle tacit approval to her husband's infidelity - "look, I've found a mouse - I'd better set him free though, to run wild, where he belongs..."
I thought the Diana stuff was great as well: the portrayal of her worked on two levels - on the one hand, being a bit rude and down-to-earth sends up the image of Diana the 'pure' saint, on the other hand by making her the girl next door to an OTT extent takes the piss out of the idea that she was 'one of us'...
And, sad geek that I am, I liked the "I am your father!" gag even though I saw it coming... |
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