Favourite Rigor Mortis episode
May. 24th, 2007 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylLast week's episode of Rigor Mortis on BBC7 was probably my favourite episode from the first series. After Dr Webster is deemed to be too spiritually negative to carry out the postmortem on a dead druid, Professor Donaldson is forced to perform his first autopsy for decades. Ruth, meanwhile, has been allowed out of the mortuary to investigate a suspicious death and promptly goes all Silent Witness.
It contains some excellent jokes, mostly at the expense of the professor, played quite superbly by Geoffrey Whitehead — the man is an absolute master of comic timing. My favourite line? After bonding a woman whose bardic name is Yellow Wolf, he eventually agrees to autopsy her husband saying, "Please, call me by what is, in a sense, my bardic name... Graham" The delivery is pure genius.
It contains some excellent jokes, mostly at the expense of the professor, played quite superbly by Geoffrey Whitehead — the man is an absolute master of comic timing. My favourite line? After bonding a woman whose bardic name is Yellow Wolf, he eventually agrees to autopsy her husband saying, "Please, call me by what is, in a sense, my bardic name... Graham" The delivery is pure genius.
