Pilfrey's
spell as a “new man” proves to be pretty short-lived. In the series finale, he elbows his way into
the main plot, suggesting Paul try hypnotherapy to help with his myriad fears,
failures, and neuroses. Naturally, he
declares himself fully qualified to perform it, and you can imagination how
strong the pull is toward mischief once he has Paul under his power.
Pretty
silly again, although this time it's Hugh Laurie bearing the brunt of the
embarrassing material. Pilfrey takes on
the role of Scottish Svengali with quiet, underhanded pleasure, planting
ridiculous suggestions in Paul's subconscious that get him into all sorts of
trouble. You get the feeling that he
might have started out with the honest intention of trying to help Paul, but his
innate weaselness takes over and he just can't help himself.
After
seeing the whole series, I'd say that PC gives a pretty good performance
playing an unevenly-written character.
There are places where the writing is so over-the-top I don't know what
else he could have done, but for the most part, he makes it work. He plays arrogant, obnoxious, and snake-like
to a tee. On the whole, a fairly amusing
villain.
Final
write-up:
Accent
Watch
Still
Scottish – imagine that.
Recommend?
In
General
– I don't know. It has a number of
excellent actors in it and some genuine good stuff, but I feel the writing is
so inconsistent.
PC-wise – Eh... maybe? Hard to say.
If you want to give it a try for a single episode, maybe go for episode
2. I think Pilfrey is at his best there,
and he has quite a bit of screen time.
Warnings
There's
a lot of sex going on in the finale. You
never see the deed itself, just a lot of post-coital snuggling and people
walking around wearing bed sheets.
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