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Spring has sprong. I know because there's primroses out. I only know that they're primroses because my mother points them out every year, and squeaks about primroses, because I am bad at flowers. But they are out, and they are primroses.
See, told you. I went for a walk yesterday, as it was warm and almost sunny (and sometimes sunny and almost warm). And there were primroses and some other flowers. Also a fox:
Fig B. A fox.
But that's not especially springy, necessarily.
Elsewhere, the hair on Remington Steele is getting worse. Not the hair on Remington Steele, as he's learnt that hairstyles are a thing by now, but everybody else on his show is deteriorating rapidly. I'm particularly concerned by the dangerous effects that eightiestasia is having on Laura Holt. The show was very careful to avoid obviously eighties fashions with its stars, in order to keep it looking as undated as possible, and for the most part this works very well. Sometimes, however, the decade creeps up on them, and gooses them from behind.
This is Laura on an ordinary working day:
She's very sensible and practical. However in the episode I watched last night, something terrifying happened.
I'm not sure quite what. She doesn't look entirely happy about it herself. It's like her head is jumping up and down, trying to get attention. Later in the episode, the top bit sits down a bit more, but the sides starting leaping up and down instead.
It's almost like it's attempting semaphore. And it's not alone. I blame one of the guest stars. She's another of those ones with curls that have curls that have curls that have curls, like some peroxide attempt at a Regency wig.
It's got to be somebody's fault, as Mildred's hair is at it as well. Here she is in her first episode, looking perfectly sensible and not-at-all-eighties. Well, except maybe the dress:
(I like this scene. She's telling Steele that he belongs in a Bond movie).
Steele likes this idea. Sorry, that's irrelevant, but like I care. Anyway, that was Mildred in 1983. This is Mildred in 1986:
That is no longer a hairstyle. That is a HAIRSTYLE. With enough mousse involved to terrify Tom Kelly in the second episode of Blake's 7.
Hair aside, it really is a contender for Best Show Ever, though. I can't decide whether I should be watching it all the time, or if it was a much better idea to accidentally forget about it for the best part of six years, so that it's practically new all over again. Either's good. Life is better with Remington Steele in it, folks. Also foxes. I'm undecided about the primroses, but they're nice enough in their way.
See, told you. I went for a walk yesterday, as it was warm and almost sunny (and sometimes sunny and almost warm). And there were primroses and some other flowers. Also a fox:
Fig B. A fox.
But that's not especially springy, necessarily.
Elsewhere, the hair on Remington Steele is getting worse. Not the hair on Remington Steele, as he's learnt that hairstyles are a thing by now, but everybody else on his show is deteriorating rapidly. I'm particularly concerned by the dangerous effects that eightiestasia is having on Laura Holt. The show was very careful to avoid obviously eighties fashions with its stars, in order to keep it looking as undated as possible, and for the most part this works very well. Sometimes, however, the decade creeps up on them, and gooses them from behind.
This is Laura on an ordinary working day:
She's very sensible and practical. However in the episode I watched last night, something terrifying happened.
I'm not sure quite what. She doesn't look entirely happy about it herself. It's like her head is jumping up and down, trying to get attention. Later in the episode, the top bit sits down a bit more, but the sides starting leaping up and down instead.
It's almost like it's attempting semaphore. And it's not alone. I blame one of the guest stars. She's another of those ones with curls that have curls that have curls that have curls, like some peroxide attempt at a Regency wig.
It's got to be somebody's fault, as Mildred's hair is at it as well. Here she is in her first episode, looking perfectly sensible and not-at-all-eighties. Well, except maybe the dress:
(I like this scene. She's telling Steele that he belongs in a Bond movie).
Steele likes this idea. Sorry, that's irrelevant, but like I care. Anyway, that was Mildred in 1983. This is Mildred in 1986:
That is no longer a hairstyle. That is a HAIRSTYLE. With enough mousse involved to terrify Tom Kelly in the second episode of Blake's 7.
Hair aside, it really is a contender for Best Show Ever, though. I can't decide whether I should be watching it all the time, or if it was a much better idea to accidentally forget about it for the best part of six years, so that it's practically new all over again. Either's good. Life is better with Remington Steele in it, folks. Also foxes. I'm undecided about the primroses, but they're nice enough in their way.
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Sometimes, however, the decade creeps up on them, and gooses them from behind.
Ha, like a sleaze in a teal-and-magenta decorated nightclub.
Hang on, is Laura Holt Carrie Fisher? IS MILDRED THE MUM FROM EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND??
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And yep, Mildred was in the Raymond thing, but I couldn't tell you who she played, as I never saw it. I can't say about Carrie Fisher! If Laura is her, they've both been keeping the secret well. ;)
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