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June 02, 2005
Bree is innocent!
Well we can forget Meera Syal, I’ve nearly finished Life isn’t Ha Ha Hee Hee (why will All Consuming not accept anything I’ve read over the past month?) and I fickly need another person to fall in love with pretty damn soon.
I think I have found her, except I’m not sure who I love the most Bree Van De Kamp or Marcia Cross, you have to understand in these crushes it is sometimes hard to separate character and actor. Coming to think of it I sure as hell could do with a Bree to sort out my house right now.
She was given all the best lines, including my favourite of the whole series ‘Oh Rex! Please don’t mistake my anal retentiveness for actual affection.’ (Although this would be very closely followed by Gabby’s ‘I feel a wave of morning sickness coming on and I want to be on your mother’s grave when it hits.’) Such sarcasm would be easy to over-act but Marcia Cross went with the flow, confident that the lines would carry themselves.
Yet you could always tell that there was a sadness behind that painted on smile, and each time she had to do one of those wistful looks into the distance (which incidentally I hate when this device is over used in TV. I feel I’m being shouted at HEY YOU! This character is SAD, yes SAD. Did you get that?) but again she does it with such subtlety that she broke my heart every last time.
So as you can imagine, that scene last night with the silver. I kind of saw it coming but it got me all the same. Until the camera scanned out and then hit upon the wedding photo. Bree mechanically finishing off the cutlery before breaking down at the edge of the table was enough for me without the naffness of having to see her wedding photo but maybe that’s just me.
But wait Rex died thinking she poisoned him. Whoah! There’s material for a whole new series in here somewhere.
More to the point, what the hell am I going to do with my Wednesday evenings until January?
Posted by purple elephant at June 2, 2005 03:32 PM