#kenneth-branagh

#kenneth-branagh

So it's easy to see Tea With Judi Dench as a sequel of sorts. Like the tree show, there isn't much on the surface to get excited about. It's a show where someone comes to visit Dench for a cup of tea and that's literally it. Which would be dispiriting another brilliant career lost to podcasts were it not for the punishing, relentless charm of the thing.

"Christie’s casting might have been conducive to the Oedipal side of the Danish prince's feelings towards his mother if only the director's performance had allowed room for it."