Very much a mixed bag, as other reviewers have noted, some worth seeing again, others good only for filling in time. The currently top rated episode, Something You Have To Live With, I thought mostly dull apart from the unpleasant burglary scene in the middle, deserving no more than a 5. The aptly named Puzzle is worse, I found it a struggle to stick with it to the end, rating a lowly 2. My favourites, all worthy of an 8:
The Cat Brought It In. Whimsical drama in which a cat brings a pair of human fingers into a house. Edward Fox plays a posh chap, just for a change.
A Curious Suicide. This one gets in my good books because Nicol Williamson is my favourite British actor, it's more dour than my other two pics. It has to be said it isn't in the same league as his greatest films from the sixties: The Bofors Gun, Laughter In The Dark, and The Reckoning, if you are interested. I must protest about the general cast list in which Williamson is insultingly placed right at the bottom, below dozens of mediocrities and unknowns.
The Stuff of Madness. Drama about a rather batty middle aged couple. Mrs Waggoner (Eileen Atkins) has her late pets stuffed while her husband (Ian Holm) is obsessed with a mannequin with a passing resemblance to a former girlfriend. It would have made a suitably macabre denouement for Holm to die and also be stuffed, but sadly it didn't happen.
