Product: Plunkett & Macleane
Rating: 4.0
HIP HIP HUZZAH !!!
Superb and superb again! Jake Scott has not made a documentary, he has taken us for a look into the 18th century, and has slapped us against the lens of Hogarth to do it. Anachronisms? Yes! They illustrate for him, he has laid them in our path like beacons, they aren't mistakes! We are all awash with them, they have to be made into tools; I know this, having been an 18th century re-enactor for many years. Plunkett and Macleane shimmers and stinks, is glorious and gory. The genius here is not just that he takes the viewer with him into Hogarth's land, it is that he leaves us there.