Hookland 2/1/21 9:07:02

The slowly developing sense of ‘the plague’ – a mention here, a mention there, a shot of passing ambulance – is gracefully done. Menace increasing by naturalistic progression, rather than clunky dumping of exposition. #HookWatch

Hookland 2/1/21 9:07:28

Grubbing around in the soil … black hands, black nails … no cremation for me … the heavy irony deployed here does that rare thing of being both foreshadowing and funny. #HookWatch

Hookland 2/1/21 9:11:22

Glynis Johns is brilliant in this. Yes, you’d expect nothing less from one of Sondheim’s favourite performers, (he wrote Send In The Clowns for her), but she manages a perfect balance between obvious villain and someone so expert in masking her nature you still doubt. #HookWatch

Hookland 2/1/21 9:13:34

The occult dabbler … the misty and perilous paces of human experience … the Edwardian roots of this tale are on show in this modern-dressed adaptation and the adaptation is all the better for it. #HookWatch