'Étoile' Cancelled After One Season!! #Amazon, #Étoile, #CharlotteGainsbourg, #DavidAlavarez, #DavidHaig, #GideonGlick, #IvanduPontavice, #LaMayZhang, #LoudeLaage, #LukeKirby, #PrimeVideo, #SimonCallow, #TaïsVinolo

https://movizark.com/2025/06/09/etoile-cancelled-after-one-season/

Étoile, a triumph of a series

https://oldaintdead.com/etoile-a-triumph-of-a-series/

'Étoile' Trailer Teases the New Ballet Drama from the Creator of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'!! Check It Out!! #Étoile, #LukeKirby, #CharlotteGainsbourg, #LoudeLaage, #GideonGlick, #DavidAlavarez, #IvanduPontavice, #TaïsVinolo, #DavidHaig, #LaMayZhang, #SimonCallow, #PrimeVideo, #Amazon

https://movizark.com/2025/03/27/etoile-trailer-teases-the-new-ballet-drama-from-the-creator-of-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-check-it-out/

Étoile’: Prime Video Ballet Drama Adds David Haig As Series Regular
#Casting #News #AmyShermanPalladino #DanielPalladino #DavidHaig #Etoile #PrimeVideo

https://deadline.com/2024/11/etoile-david-haig-cast-prime-video-ballet-drama-1236187452/

#NowStreamingFree 7+ in australia
#TheThinBlueLine BBC masterpiece from 1995 w #RowanAtkinson #DavidHaig, Written by #BenElton

can’t say i’m the world’s greatest mr bean fan, but i’ve always loved this Rowan Atkinson series set in a local cop shop.
yes, it features the predictable brit comedy tropes (the frustrated female e.g.) but more than that, this is a better grade of satire. Does it punch down? It flirts with ableism and homophobia, doesn’t seem to cross the line the way contemporary brit comedies did/do?

there is occasional shouting, but not Fawlty Towers level shouting (abuse is no substitute for humour imo)

plautus (254-184BCE) wrote a play about a slave who saved his master from the master’s incompetence - we have seen this comment on class systems reworked in shows like a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, Frankie Howerd’s camp version Up Pompeii (1971) but especially the 1961 sitcom The Rag Trade.

the question with the thin blue line remains who is the master and who is the saviour…

https://youtu.be/k7ThhuIUll8?feature=shared