Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Villains of NYC

Now I like Law and Order.
It's smart. It's slick.
Honestly, it's like looking in a mirror.
Their actors are good and their regulars have gravitas.
It's everything that Bones isn't, regardless of what the oracle Stephen Fry thinks.
But we must, MUST, have more bad-toothed villains.
I can bear a well moisturised villain having a gravelly sinister voice and a too well trimmed goatee. But when they have all been on the receiving end of a GoSmile treatment it all gets a bit hard to swallow. I understand they need to keep their options open for the song and dance gig or the vacuum cleaner ads but really... do all killers laser?
The British have traditionally done well as Hollywood villains.
It's time to accept that cliche and export many more of our unwhitened gap-toothed actors, the ones who seem not to even brush never mind floss never mind bleach.
We can start exporting everyone in Eastenders then bring back Tomorrow's World.
I can't be the only one to miss Michael Rodd.