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DELICIOUS
May 26, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Acorn TV, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: This four-episode limited series – or mini-miniseries, or whatever we should call it these days – is a British import about very unattractive characters (behaviorally, not physically) in a very attractive setting. The setting is Cornwall, where Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones) plays a successful chef with two grown kids, an ex-wife whose recipes built his reputation, and a younger second wife who suspects him of cheating on her. And he is – with his ex. Dawn French, who’s made me laugh ever since she teamed with Jennifer Saunders on the sketch comedy series French and Saunders in the late Eighties, is very good, and very believable, as the ex-wife – dramatic roles suit her, it turns out – but her part is hardly sympathetic. In fact, the only character worth rooting for in the entire story is the second wife, played by Emilia Fox – who, when she gets angry at her husband, takes it out on his fancy convertible by smashing its windows with a bat, Lemonade-style. Except, since this is England, it’s a cricket bat. And what makes Delicious worth watching, despite its abrasive central characters, is a shocking plot twist that arrives early, and twists everything, in a very unusual and compelling way. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower

 
 
 
 
 
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