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"I, Peggy"
Any 'I, Claudius' fans among the Maddicts? BBC show from the 1970s that observes the decline of Rome into decadence and corrution through the eyes of Claudius, a stutterer taken for a fool who ultimately rises to become emperor of Rome.
I think it's the best thing ever made for TV. It was alluded to a bit on 'The Sopranos,' especially Tony's mother Livia.
I couldn't help thinking when watching Peggy that she reminds me a lot of wily old Claudius -- the quiet, observant person many people mistake for a harmless idiot or doddering fool who is actually wiser than everyone. Sterling Cooper certainly has some elements of decadent Rome corroding from within.
Any 'Claudius' fans with me on this?
Well we certainly need a Claudius in our country right about now.
Yes, one of my favorite books and favorite series. Loved Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, George Baker and John Hurt! Wish they'd run that again on Masterpiece Theater.
Wouldn't it be great if they re-ran some of MT former series for a new generation? There were sooo many good ones (Brideshead Revisited, Lily, Flickers, I Claudius, Jewel in the Crown (the Raj Quartet) Elizabeth R, Flame Trees of Thika and so many others).
Great show. I have it on DVD. Out to watch it again.
I Claudius was one of my all-time favorite TV programs, along with Jewel in the Crown, Lilly, The Sopranos, and of course Mad Men.
Does anyone remember "A Pin to see the Peepshow" on Masterpiece Theatre? That was very good too.
Ah, Flickers...One of my favorites. So nice to see Frances DeLa Tour in "The History Boys" in the movies recently. She and Bob Hoskins were a wonderful, delightful team as Maud and Archie Coe. Always thought she should have played a great Eleanor Roosevelt.
Anyway, yes I see a lot of I, Claudius in MM. But I think Peggy will make out better than poor ole CTNG. And the wonderful stuff like John Hurt actually making you feel sympathy for Caligula "Uncle Claudius, I want to ask you a serious question...Do you think I'm mad?" is repeated by our wonderful guys.
Wasn't Hurt fantastic as Caligula? Jeesh, when he came dancing out as the god Neptune, oh man! Pretty wild, that, and marrying his sister and then doing the abortion or caesarian on her? Yikes! What a wild, great series!
Jamm, I loved Hurt in Claudius! Appointing a horse to the senate -- maybe Cooper can to that at SC! 'Do you think I'm mad?' Claudius: 'You set the standard of sanity for the whole world.' Jacobi is the greatest -- he did an awesome Hamlet for BBC.
Agree regertz that Peggy will make out better.
I love John Hurt. I've never seen all of "The Naked Civil Servant" (about Quintin Crisp) which looked great, but cried my way through "Elephant Man", and would like to see "Love and Longing in Long Island"? He's riveting when on-screen. But that series, wow, haven't seen anything quite like that on tv in ages.
It really is criminal that Masterpiece Theater does not rerun these mini-series on PBS. The storylines and production values were superb, and if they had a Masterpiece Theater Redeux on PBS for them, I think they'd get a lot of viewers. For some reason, I never got into "Prime Suspect", I guess I liked the historical costume dramas more.