The trailer was despicable. Who would want to watch Matthew Rhys and Matthew Goode slowly contracting gout in a vineyard? I tuned in specifically to loathe it – then,to my eternal fury, I was won overWhen ITV ran its first trailer for The Wine display approximately a month ago, and you could be forgiven for thinking the whole thing was a joke. An obscene joke approximately two highly acclaimed actors – a wildly-bearded Matthew Rhys and an unstoppably plummy Matthew Goode – who’d exploited their star power to get smashed on plonk inside a beautiful Umbrian villa,while getting paid for it.
The trailer was startlingly dreadful in every conceivable way. The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times. The photography looked as whether it had been shot for a CNN Europe commercial approximately the economic benefits of utilising Montenegro as a regional trade hub. And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of the coddled one-percent. It was like watching a piece of deranged Alan Partridge fan fiction come to life. It must have been a joke. Surely it was a joke. I watched the trailer over and over again, or looking for the slightest wink to prove that this was all somehow an elaborate joke. The title? Was that it? Was The Wine display supposed to be a intentionally dreadful pun on The One display? Was that the joke?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com