Reactions to Miss Fisher Season 3 eps 1-3

[alias_sqbr]

Spoilersssssss


Ep 1:
Has Phryne ever talked about her parents before? Meanwhile they cheerfully reminisce about her childhood and her sad dead sister from season 1 is not mentioned once.

Oh look a dead lesbian.

EVIL TWIN.

Ep 2:

Oh look a dead gay guy.

Did they not have search warrants in 1920s Australia? I feel like police officers shouldn't be able to use evidence they found by randomly rummaging around in army bases without permission.

NOW KISS

NO NOT THAT GUY

I feel like we already did the "Hugh comes to terms with Dot's career" thing but I guess he has more coming to terms to do.

Not a dead gay guy after all!

Ep 3:

An old italian woman being murdered to loud opera, really? And of course her rosary drops to the ground dramatically. AND THEN PASTA SAUCE DRIPS TO THE GROUND SYMBOLICALLY OMG.

Now that this show is internationally popular people all over the world can see how weird Australians are about non-WASPs hooray

I guess it's been a while since Phryne had a sexy Ethnic Boyfriend. Can't speak much for the sexiness of this one though, Jack's Sexy Ethnic Girlfriend is hotter.

That's a nice jacket, Phyryne.

EVIL SECRET SOCIETY OF TOMATO IMPORTERS

Claremont last ep, Fremantle this one, the Perth references just keep coming! (this is exciting when you're from Perth)

At least this victim's secret love life was 100% unambiguously heterosexual this time? As was everyone else of course, can't have secret gays AND Italians, only so much room for diversity.

I like how Phryne gets all the sex and Jack gets a fairly chaste, sentimental kiss that largely exists to prove his devotion to Phryne. WHO. HE. SHOULD. ALSO. KISS.

Looks like next week is a crazy disabled person with facial scars SOUNDS FUN.

Comments

[cleo]

PHRYNE JUST KISS JACK ALREADY. JUST DO IT!

[alias_sqbr]

I KNOOOOOOWWWWWW smooshes them together

[hebethen]

I watched these and I wanted to punch Jack so much :\

As for episode one, I can't tell you how hard I was praying that it wouldn't be a recapitulation of "jealous spurned lesbian commits murder"... which as I recall was actually used in a previous season.

[alias_sqbr]

Me too, same with second episode. I guess a lesbian dying for reasons unrelated to her lesbianism, and homophobe killing a presumably straight woman he mistakenly thought was a gay man is...better?

[lizbee]

I see so many reviews from non-Australians praising this series for its inclusivity and diversity, and I really want to know which version they're watching. REALLY. I mean, it's a cute show, I ship Phryne/Jack REALLY REALLY HARD, but when it's notable that an episode has characters of colour and ISN'T horribly racist ... yeah.

[alias_sqbr]

I think it's that people are used to "racist media" hitting certain specific buttons, and since MFMM hits different buttons they don't always notice.

But yeah. I watched season one with a friend from Argentina and it was sometimes VERY AWKWARD. Though we did have an interesting conversation about the ways in which her ethnicity is exotified here vs in the US, when in her own country she is part of the privileged white majority.

[lizbee]

Though we did have an interesting conversation about the ways in which her ethnicity is exotified here vs in the US, when in her own country she is part of the privileged white majority.

Heh. I had a similar conversation with a Japanese acquaintance a couple of years ago, who was deeply offended at the idea that only white people can be racist. She saw that idea as being yet another example of westerncentricity.

I have MANY feelings about MFMM right now, including a feeling that there is a statistically improbable number of women committing violent crimes. Which goes back to the source material and its general hostility to women who aren't Phryne or Dot, I guess. I'm suddenly really sad I'm not on the panel about it at Continuum next weekend.

[alias_sqbr]

Everything I've heard about the books has made me happy to stick to the tv show, for all it's flaws.