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The Irregulars Chapter Six: Chapter Six: Hieracium Snowdoniense
episode 1.6
UK 2021
produced by Rebecca Hodgson, Tom Bidwell (executive), Greg Brenman (executive), Jude Liknaitzky (executive) for Drama Republic/Netflix
directed by Weronika Tofilska
starring McKell David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari, Harrison Osterfield, Darci Shaw, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Clarke Peters, Royce Pierreson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Alex Ferns, Tom Godwin, Edward Hogg, Yazzmin Newell
written and created by Tom Bidwell, based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Paul Haslinger
TV series The Irregulars, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Henry Lloyd-Hughes)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Bea (Thaddea Graham) and her Irregulars - Spike (McKell David), Billy
(Jojo Macari) and Leopold (Harrison Osterfield) - but minus their empath
Jessie (Darci Shaw) investigate the case of a thief of limbs and organs
who apparently has the weird power to immediately heal the injuries he or
she caused. Bea thinks the case is one reminiscent of many years ago, and
figures to track down whoever it is they have to follow the trail that
Watson (Royce Pierreson), by now their adversary, leaves behind. And
eventually they meet Edith Dubois (Anna Maxwell Martin), who back in the
day got hold of some supernatural object that Watson eventually relieved
her off to open a portal - or rip, as it's called here - which gives
random people random superpowers. It gave her the power to understand
plants, and now she uses that power to make a new body for her dead
husband (Tom Goodwin) out of the body parts she has stolen. Thing is, the
reanimated husband isn't very happy about being back among the living, so
he strangles her and then himself. Watson was actually Edith's captive,
and when the Irregulars free him he admits to have opened the rip back
when, but has since gotten rid of the supernatural thingie, so he's as
clueless as our heroes as to who has opened it now and how to close it.
The only person who might know is Jessie ... Jessie has teamed up with
Sherlock Holmes (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), figuring his powers of deduction
will help her figure out what's going on without going back into her
nightmares again. But Holmes proves to be a total dud. Then Bea asks her
to go back into her nightmares again to figure out what's going on, upon
which Jessie runs away and meets up with a fellow empath (Clarke Peters)
she has met and bonded with in her dreams, to find out he doesn't want to
help her but open the rip even wider ... A subplot has Bea find out that
Leopold is actually the Prince of England, and even if she had only just
been madly in love with him now she doesn't want to have any more to do
with him as he hasn't been honest with her. And another subplot has Billy
meet up with his minder (Alex Ferns) from the workhouse again, and
ultimately killing him in a fight he has tried to avoid at all costs,
which lands him in jail ... The last couple of episodes of The
Irregulars were actually pretty solid as compared to the early
ones, but this one falls apart again, as the more is revealed of the
series' underlying mythology, the sillier it becomes, and this is really
an episode that goes all out Marvel
Comics in just giving random characters random superpowers without
any real rhyme or reason, and with throwing logic overboard. The other
main problem that permeates the series really comes to the fore again
here, even though class divide is clearly a subject in the whole
Bea-and-Leopold subplot, the titular Irregulars just don't talk like
street kids and don't have streetsmart attitudes. In short, not one of the
better episodes of the series.
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