Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 8 2013, 9:45 AM GMTThe dinner scene wasn't that what it could have been. It could have been a nice and believable near catastrophe...
But... that's not the style of the show. You're complaining that it does what Miranda does instead of doing what another show might do. It's big, silly, goofy and not at all subtle; that's the style of the show, that's what it is.
You're right. But...why creating such a situation (important dinner with soon to be in laws) if you won't use its potentials. It was like a children's birthday where everyone behaved like a mental but Miranda (and mother) was accused of being odd.
Another thing: Why was Miranda worried not wearing knickers while getting examined by a doctor? She didn't mind being potentially "au natural" while she was playing with little children at a playground.
She was still wearing her culottes (haven't heard that word in 15 years!) when she was with the kids.
I, wrongly, thought it was a skirt until told otherwise.
Quote: zooo @ January 8 2013, 12:48 PM GMTculottes
Never heard that one before...sounds like a French word for "bitch".
It is shorts that look like a skirt!
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 8 2013, 10:09 AM GMTYou're right. But...why creating such a situation (important dinner with soon to be in laws) if you won't use its potentials.
She did use its potential.
Quote: Aaron @ January 8 2013, 1:06 PM GMTShe did use its potential.
Its potential is imo, to make the audience think "Oh, I hope she won't do anything stupid...please, don't look at the toupé...nothing happened yet...nearly done...she'll succeed" until near the end something happens nonetheless. But this potential doesn't get used because Miranda and her friends stampede in like a herd of elephants on ecstasy from second 1 on.
If there's something that could be improved on, it's Miranda's rather wet and uninteresting love interest characters.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 8 2013, 1:13 PM GMTIts potential is imo, to make the audience think "Oh, I hope she won't do anything stupid...please, don't look at the toupé...nothing happened yet...nearly done...she'll succeed" until near the end something happens nonetheless. But this potential doesn't get used because Miranda and her friends stampede in like a herd of elephants on ecstasy from second 1 on.
Well some of that did happen - they didn't go straight into the toupée, for example - but again, that's not the style of the show. It played perfectly in the style it has established for itself to work in. You seem to want it to run in some awful arse-achingly cringeworthy, comedy-of-embarrassment Peep Show-esque vein.
Quote: Aaron @ January 8 2013, 1:15 PM GMTbut again, that's not the style of the show.
Obviously.
Quote: Aaron @ January 8 2013, 1:15 PM GMTYou seem to want it to run in some awful arse-achingly cringeworthy, comedy-of-embarrassment Peep Show-esque vein.
Yep. 
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 8 2013, 1:18 PM GMTYep.
A very tired and tiresome comedy trope. Thank God for Miranda.
Watching the main character falling over again and again and behaving like a tit can be tiresome too.
But I admit that Miranda is rather amusing...but there are aspects I'd change if I were in charge. That's all.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 8 2013, 1:15 PM GMTIf there's something that could be improved on, it's Miranda's rather wet and uninteresting love interest characters.
How dare you speak ill of Gary!
