They missed a trick not calling it Hard Boiled Egg.

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The problem here is not that they’re doing a procedural where the characters are based on those from the Great Gatsby, it’s that they don’t have the wit to slightly cloak those inspirations and let the audience catch on in their own time. House MD wasn’t called Dr Sherlock Holmes But American MD.

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"Under a narrow, arched doorway, surmounted by one of those demoniacal grotesques in which the cynical and ghastly fancy of old Gothic carving delights, I saw very gladly the beautiful face and figure of Carmilla enter the shadowy chapel" J. Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla" 1872

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I'm coming to a theory that he wasn't actually a human, he was some space-time event needed to fill odd holes in British pop culture continuity. Like padding out a list of Joan Collins' husbands. You're telling me the same human could be Polly from Dr Who's boyfriend *and* write Feelin' Good? Nah.

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I know @andrewhickey.500songs.com has noted many times the odd career of Anthony Newley, who for my generation was just sort of there, but somehow 'there' encompassed 'inspired Bowie and Python', 'was Oliver in the David Lean version', 'wrote the theme for Goldfinger, and Oompa-Loompa'. Anyway...

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