WDYTYA - Jack & Michael Whitehall 5/8/19

[JenB]

The subject matter was interesting, but the pair of them (who on earth are they?) didn't seem at all engaged. Is Whitehall senior normally like that or was it just an act? Why did they have to be pictured pushing their way along a school corridor full of screaming girls? Were their comments supposed to be funny?
 

Some of the TV reviewers in the press are claiming this episode is the best ever    and that viewers were "in stitches" at their comments.

Yes, but that was the Daily Mail 

Sometimes I'm able to blank out the participants if the subject matter really engages me, but in the case of this pair I really found it impossible.

For me the best episode of the three shown so far, definitely Daniel Radcliffe.   

[Mowsehowse]

photo of mural from Google Images

[chris_49]

Thanks for that, mowsehouse.


It was ridiculous that the mural was destroyed, but the artist's son has been commissioned to create a replica (though three miles away and at quarter-scale.)

[nanny jan]

I wonder who thought it was a good idea to have "two for the price of one". …….   

The history was interesting but as for those two...……..

[chris_49]

Yes, part of the problem was that they mostly interacted with each other rather than with the experts. I think this would be a problem whoever the two people were. I hope they don't repeat that, luckily there are few such celeb pairs like that, at least that I can think of.

[Regorian]

I had the same reaction. I got rid of the TV c1995 but picked up one extract  from You Tube yesterday, probably pirated. I have no idea who they are either.

[AntonyMMM]

I quite enjoyed it .....

[lisalisa]

I really liked it.   

Thought it would have been interesting to look into where all the £££ went that REB inherited  ,  but then the story went to Newport and the Chartists. 

Of this series I intended to watch this one and Paul Merton.

[Kiltpin]

It became clear to me, very early on, that the pair knew what they were going to find. 

Jack, "Great granddad was a bit of a shagger!" 

Two scenes later, "He died of syphilis, See I was right!" 

Whitehall senior was obviously dressing up for the cameras - who packs 3 fedoras (blue, brown and tan) for a week away in Wales? And how many topcoats does the man own? 

I did not like Jack looking into the camera and rolling his eyes, as if we were part of the joke. All in all, I thought that the show was just an extension of the pair's TV career. 

Regards 

Chas