Rebus Review - The Falls
Just got round to watching last week's Rebus with Ken Stott - the man I have previously hailed as born to play the role.
The problem was that the role Stott was asked to play was not Rebus.
This punter lived in a country cottage rather than an Edinburgh flat, roguishly chased younger women with over the top romantic gestures, sketched his lovers a la Di Caprio, and liked a pint and fag rather than being addicted to them. This was not the man that sits in a chair all night with no company but a bottle of whisky and the ghost of past failures.
We've gone from the wrong actor playing the character to the right actor playing the wrong character. A single 1.5 hour episode makes this worse by leaving no room for nuance of character - in either Rebus or his sidekick Shiobhan.
Disappointing - still I guess there's a couple of books to go.
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posted by Digbeth D'Marriotti at 5:44 PM
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There were a couple of scenes in the Oxford - which I frequented a couple of times when I was in Ed.
This was long before the whole Rebus thing - it's probably stuffed full of coach parties from Nebraska now.
Actually, the scenes that were supposed to have been in the 'Ox' were shot in a pub in the Gorbals!
That was abot as authentic as it got ;-)
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