Love Lynley, love Havers, and both their specific troubled lives---they are a perfect "statement" of how the class system works for everyone---the aristocrat needs their loyal, practical, and grounded-in-reality sidekick. They are a visual statement, and a "power" statement as well. Havers has mundane worries and limitations, Lynley has the burden and misery of centuries to carry on his shoulders, has suffered a lot, and we don't begrudge him his rank and income and perfect town-house.
BIGGEST mistake is the mis-casting of Helen, who was a perfect foil to Lynley before---but the new actress in the "non-role" now looks awful in every respect---that is, trashy by anyone's definition. Having to suffer through her brief scenes and look at her dishelved appearance nearly ruins the episodes. Lynley is gorgeous, lonely, eligible and should be hounded by a bevy of classy titled Debutantes by now---looking at him with this actress beggars belief. |