Writer Sam Luke receives death threats when on a promotional tour for his latest book.Writer Sam Luke receives death threats when on a promotional tour for his latest book.Writer Sam Luke receives death threats when on a promotional tour for his latest book.
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- TriviaThe second of two appearances by Simon Cadell, the first being in S4 E17, Hijack (1981).
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TV Interviewer: You suggest in your novel that women are all masochists, Mr. Luke. Is that your personal experience?
Sam Luke: I present women as I know them to be. The success of Women Weeping would suggest that I'm right.
TV Interviewer: But surely at this point in time when women are gaining leading positions in so many areas...
Sam Luke: That doesn't affect the positions they take up in the sex war. In that ongoing action, women are still a weaker sex who long to be dominated by men.
TV Interviewer: Isn't that a rather old fashioned view?
Sam Luke: Rather old fashioned species. Women have been the weaker since the beginning of our existence. Are you suggesting that a few years of voting and unisex have fundamentally changed all? I don't agree. You may wear well-tailored suits and smoke cigars, but at heart, you're still the same, eminently crushable creatures you've always been.
Simon Cadell totally steals the scene as the obnoxiously drunk writer of books that are deemed sexist, and hence he's got a fair share of women who would like to throttle him. And one woman starts making threatening phone calls to him saying "Have a nice Death". It doesn't take Einstein to guess who the perpetrator is, however I liked this episode. It's staginess added a claustrophobic feel. Perhaps it's a bit flat in places but I wouldn't call this one dire.
- coltras35
- Mar 4, 2023