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We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)
Shocking and informative
This documentary is the stuff of Greek Tragedy. Cosby's actions were hubris to the nth degree. The evidence certainly cannot be ignored. The women's stories were heartbreaking. I am younger by Cosby but old enough that as a kid, I watched "I Spy" and a friend played me one of his albums. I wasn't A big fan but thought he was funny and talented. He wasn't let go on a technicality. It was prosecutorial misconduct - another example of misogyny. It's clear the DA didn't think the women's testifying was sufficient and he needed Cosby's own words from his deposition. If that's how he felt, he never should have brought the case.
The one thing the documentary did was show how important to the black community he was.. He was their idol. I can't imagine how betrayed and angry they were discovering their idol had feet of clay.
Poirot: Five Little Pigs (2003)
Beautifully evocative and brilliantly acted
Unlike some of the adaptations of Christie' s Poirot, this was very true to the novel. There were a few melodramatic moments in this production that were not true to the novel but they were minor.
This is one of the Christie novels where the characterizations were at the heart of the tale.
The close-up of all the major characters showed not only how much they suffered from the events of the past but how hollow they had become. It seemed, even in death, the husband and wife were more dynamic than those who orbited around them.
The acting was fabulous and Suchet' s Poirot showed subtlety and charm and happily, few of the affectation s he sometimes employed with his quarry and I think Rachael Stirling,as Caroline Crayle was first among equals.
This show affected me greatly and won't soon be forgotten.