When this show has a point to make, it does so with a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel, which is all part of the fun. Austerity was caused by Labour overspending’. That last one’s real, by the way, spelled ‘Chiswell’ but pronounced ‘Defund public services. All the expected caricatures were present and correct, from the nose-ring Marxists to snobbish, sneering Tories named Arabella Cruelty and Jasper Chisel.
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Previous series have taken the investigators to the worlds of high-fashion celebrity and literary publishing, this one’s set against the backdrop of Westminster politics and counter-culture activism. Putting the interpersonal drama to one side, the new case comes with a brand new context for Strike. Given this show’s lurid stories about dismembered limbs arriving in the post and ritualistic entrails-removal, Strike’s most far-fetched event thus far was Robin’s mother kindly offering her £500 for a rental deposit on a London flat. (It’s little wonder Robin’s anxiety has spiked, by the way – that new place must come with a mortgage the size of Sweden. Strike Is Back For a New BBC Series: Recapping Cormoran and Robin’s Story So Far By Louisa Mellor Cormoran rebounded straight from that wedding hug into a relationship with vintage dress shop owner Lorelei (Natalie Gumede) who seems great other than the major flaw of Not Being Robin. Robin’s having panic attacks and being forced to serve housewarming party chorizo to the braying, diamond-wearing Sloane Matthew cheated on her with. In summary: Cormoran’s heart-broken, Robin’s in a bad way, and both are refusing to admit anything’s wrong. The first hour established the new case while tracking the emotional aftermath of Robin’s wedding.
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Įpisode one of Lethal White divided its attention satisfyingly between the professional and the personal. As long as these two are trying to tease out other people’s secrets while steadfastly ignoring their own, there’s a future for Strike. If Robin had done what we all wanted and stopped that insipid first dance dead, torn off her veil and leapt into Strike’s strong Cornish arms, what would be left to watch? Yes, there are still the murders, but by this point they’re a secondary consideration – gruesome icing on the delicious cake that is Robin and Cormoran’s lip-gnawing rightness for each other. Wedded to Matthew, this show’s an ongoing concern. What was Robin thinking?īeing a clever, practical sort, she was probably thinking that the throbbing will-they-won’t-they magnet-pull at the heart of Strike would stop dead if she and Cormoran were ever to actually get it on. Compared to Cormoran Strike, Matthew is… well, Matthew. He grades women like homework, makes fun of disabilities, cheated on Robin at her lowest point and almost certainly is the specific kind of prong who thinks you can’t spend less than two month’s salary on a new watch. He’s Fizz Friday and cash ISAs and European stag dos. Dancing the first dance at her wedding to the lyrics ‘If I could, then I would’ while locking eyes over her new husband’s shoulder with the man who really gets her, then abandoning that dance to run after the retreating figure of said man is almost enough to make you feel sorry for Matthew.Įxcept, it’s impossible to feel sorry for Matthew.
What followed was pretty flagrant on Robin’s part. Two years later, our invitation to the reception has arrived. Was he rushing to Robin’s wedding to give her back her old job, or to declare his love and stop her from saying ‘I do’? Whichever it was, she tied the knot and we didn’t see what followed.
The last time we saw Cormoran Strike, he was barrelling up the M1 on a traditional rom-com mission, but with a certain vagueness of purpose.
Contains spoilers for Strike: Lethal White Episode 1
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