8/3/2023 0 Comments Folx transphobic![]() ![]() In the first season, Walker appeared as a lovely but stifled object of affection and pursuit for Lister-not least because of Walker’s financial holdings. Taking up more of a presence this season is Anne Walker (Sophie Rundle). The show’s brand of humor is finely honed and genially consistent, a patient, character-based comedy that relies on precise beats and timing: characters break the fourth wall to make exasperated eye contact with the camera, and the show develops a language of small, knowing gestures-signaling wordlessly for more wine at dinner, or a determinedly disapproving death-stare from a judgmental old neighbor. ![]() In one scene, after firing a rude groom, Lister tells him to get off her property in twenty minutes or she will shoot him for trespassing-which leads to a half-frightening, half-humorous extended sequence in which she rushes through the passageways of her manor house with a loaded pistol, a detail which seems to slip her mind as she’s distracted by half a dozen other tasks. As in the first season, the show’s rendition of Lister is an exhilarating character study of an all-around remarkable person, at times brutally practical, always breathlessly kinetic, and frequently less-than-perfectly self-aware. In the show, Lister appears as a force of nature: out-talking, out-planning, and out-walking just about everyone who shuffles up to challenge her, all while wearing her customary top hat and skirted black suit. The historical Lister kept meticulous, encrypted journals (in a cypher she invented herself), and those diaries give a portrait of an endlessly fascinating person: an amateur doctor, an avid traveler and explorer, a brutal and shrewd businessperson, who existed in a time when the vocabulary to describe her gender identity was still nearly two centuries away. ![]() Gentleman Jack is based on the diaries of Anne Lister, played by Suranne Jones, an upper-class gender-bender in 1830s Halifax. Although Americans will have to wait for the final two episodes on HBO-sorry-it is extremely easy to see why the show remains so beloved. Wainwright’s prestige period drama Gentleman Jack wrapped its second season last week on the BBC with its customary measure of charm, wit, sex, and heart. Rejoice, all ye fellow queers (and everyone else who likes good TV): Sally Wainwright’s still got it. ![]()
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