{"id":2314,"date":"2019-12-03T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2025-06-18T00:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:59:37","slug":"television-whitenoise-the-darling-buds-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=2314","title":{"rendered":"Television Whitenoise: The Darling Buds Of May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am on something of a nostalgia trip with this one. I remember it being for me, one of the first things outside of\u00a0<em>Only Fools &amp; Horses<\/em> where I began to see David Jason&#8217;s genius. I loved him in <em>Open All Hours, <\/em>and he did a great turn in\u00a0<em>Porridge\u00a0<\/em>too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was great to see him getting to stretch himself, with something a little gentler. Is Pa Larkin arguably a country version of Del Boy? Maybe. But this one really feels like it is played for the emotional punch rather than the laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one episode seduction of Charlie into the Larkin way of life, and the ease and beauty of Catherine Zeta Jones as Mariette played against Charlie&#8217;s bumbling blossoming into himself is still as charming as it was when I watched it on ITV in England, all those years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much makes me homesick, but Kent isn&#8217;t that different from Suffolk in appearance, and there is something about the depiction of the English countryside that really engages me. <em>Britbox<\/em> is, I think, primarily designed for non-UK audiences to engage in some Anglophilia, but for me it is a journey into the past that is attended by memories of sitting around in the living room with my dad, who was country enough to be conjured up every time I see Pa Larkin on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on something of a nostalgia trip with this one. I remember it being for me, one of the first things outside of\u00a0Only Fools &amp; Horses where I began to see David Jason&#8217;s genius. I loved him in Open <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=2314\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153,154,1],"tags":[770,771,844,1220,999,1219,1045,1046],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","category-television-whitenoise","category-uncategorized","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-regular-movement","tag-skull-cull","tag-skullcull","tag-television","tag-television-whitenoise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/the-darling-buds-of-may.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}