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Those eyes (SPOILERS)

posted 8 years ago by strangebedfellows
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Just watched this and very quickly became aware of the actresses pop eyed portrayal of Rose Coyne which I found extremely distracting. I found the way she insisted she loved her husband and then swore undying love for Ron very confusing.
The daughters never ending shy smiles and predatory behaviour also got on my nerves as did the ghastly wigs and the portrayal of rural Irishmen as aggressive drunken cowards.
I couldn't understand the amount and diversity of the stuff being dumped in wartime - people couldn't afford to chuck out much in those days surely.
I watched it all but there was an underlying emptiness to the plot - it was far too long for one thing and too many pointless scenes.
The ending is not really an ending - but merely a cliff hanger to the next series if I'm any judge.

[–] debbieblackman17 8 years ago

I hope we get a second season as it was a stupid way to end it

[–] CobblersAwls 8 years ago

Just watched this and very quickly became aware of the actresses pop eyed portrayal of Rose Coyne which I found extremely distracting

All of the above in your post--but especially this observation about the eyes.

It baffled me that any director or director of photography would shoot an actress over and over again in close ups and in tight shots with that bizarre popped eyed expression of hers.

Isn't that what directors (and directors of photography) are for? To avoid that kind of distracting unattractive situation in an actor or actress? (Well, that is, unless the point of the scene is to make them unattractive as part of the plot, but these ugly shots don't seem to fit that case.)

The whole show was a big hot mess to begin with on most levels--but making your leading lady that unattractive over and over again with the creepy bug eyed shots was very, very weird.

[–] gorbals406 8 years ago

pop eyed portrayal of Rose Coyne which I found extremely distracting.

I too found the eyes quite distracting, but I have the feeling from this production and others that I have seen her in that her eyes seeming to "pop" might be almost a Tourette's Syndrome facial tic. It definitely comes across to me as more of a tic than some kind of technique of over-acting.