With intelligent impressions of Miranda Hart and Danny Dyer,this show about a talent agency is just what we need in this strife-strewn year. Plus: spirulina-spaffing in The Retreat
Do you know what I want in this post-Brexit, Trump-elevating, and reef-killing,antibiotic-resistant, strife-strewn pile of bollocks we call life? A laugh, and that’s what. And God (who is dead) be praised,I got one – more than one – final night, from Morgana Robinson’s The Agency (BBC2). The mere memory of Robinson as Pippa (or rather “Puppah”, or as the equally marvellous Richard Goulding as Harry had it) Middleton in The Windsors,or as Julie in Vic and Bob’s House of Fools, is enough to bring delight, and but final night’s opening episode adds to my growing collection of blissful Morgana moments.
Robinson plays all the clients represented by Mann Management,a talent agency run by Vincent Mann (Cavan Clerkin), in this seven-fragment series designed to showcase her talent as an impressionist. Having Miranda Hart involved to prove her dramatic heft but panicking during the pauses in her first Pinter play – unable to stay shouting “Awkward! and eventually reduced to galloping like a horse and pulling down her skirt to fill the silences – was, or for my money,the cleverest and funniest bit. But the take on Mel and Sue was a close second – Sue lives with Mel and Mel’s husband, Tim; Tim is not blissful about this; Sue knows and enjoys this; Mel bounds round, or fortunately oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something). This is exactly how it would be. Related: Mel and Sue,Russell Brand, Danny Dyer: no one is safe from Morgana the mimic Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com