2013-01-08

sovay: (Claude Rains)
Today's recovered note dates from February 2011. I had just seen Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009) the previous month; I was discovering a new character actor everywhere I could.

My highly learned report on Local Hero (1983): I've never seen anyone run like Peter Capaldi unless they were about three years old and imitating an airplane. He's so breathlessly bendy, with that adolescent explosion of limbs. And then he grew up to play Malcolm Tucker and look like a bundle of angry coathangers. But he still has that very impressive run.

I still haven't been able to see more than a few episodes of The Thick of It (2005–) broken into three parts on YouTube, but I can, pleasantly, make this post having just seen Capaldi in the second series of The Hour (2011–12), where he and Anna Chancellor were frequently more compelling than the A-plot; that was one of the problems with the second series. If they film a third, I'm hoping he sticks around. He had a bit of physical business in the last episode that could nearly break your heart.
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