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Sherlock 102 (Patreon)

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Patrick

Steven Moffat wrote a lot of Doctor Who episodes then became the showrunner

PhilM

There are absolutely loads of Holmes stories that don't feature a murder. The prime reason Arthur Conan Doyle gave for Holmes' involvement was that the puzzle was interesting - though there were times that Holmes got involved out of compassion for the victims (one of the major differences between Doyle's version and Moffat's). Notable non-murders include: A Case of Identity - a timid woman asks Holmes to find her missing fiancé. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Holmes traces a Christmas goose containing a stolen gemstone The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - Holmes aids a governess who has a strange, high-paying job with bizarre rules (such as cutting her hair and wearing a specific dress) The Adventure of the Illustrious Client - Holmes is hired to break off a naive young woman's engagement to a cruel baron.

James Lawson

George, the thing with Sherlock Holmes is he does things based primarily around "does it interest him" or "is this interesting" :) within the books he primarily is always doing his own work, not helping Scotland Yard. Could be a huge range of different cases too, and he does things from the tiniest thing that might seem mundane up to the biggest country impacting stuff.

WayneC

Just want to point out that the origin of the name Holmes is not related to homes or houses.

Jaaahn

no one said it was? i think you misheard/misunderstood.

ArcadeAndy

There are a TON of Sherlock Holmes references in the show House M.D. The addiction, the playing music while he's thinking, the entire episode dedicated to Irene Adler, etc.. etc... etc... There are even easter eggs like 221B, Holmes' pipe, Arthur Conan Doyle references, etc... etc... etc... I'm pretty sure there was even a House M.D. promo that called him the Sherlock of medicine or something, idk. I feel like anyone who was familiar with Sherlock Holmes in media knew that House was meant to be a modern day Sherlock, so I'm gonna guess Simone's stepdad will know all about this.

Alexrandom

Simone, when you mouth 1,2,3, it does not help me sync but it does help me feel like I'm not crazy for doing it too 😛

Jaaahn

i love Simone but i have to admit shes a bit too chatty for me in this one... within the first 20 minutes just so much rambling even George looked a bit annoyed and was trying to listen to the show, at one point he didnt even answer her. maybe its the cold medication she was on last week i dont know but she really needs to shorten things she wants to say rather than ramble for ever.

Lukas

Re: Do the original stories always revolve around murder? - No. Often, but far from always. You're right that cases he gets from the police are (nearly?) always murders, but he takes many cases from private clients that usually aren't murders (e.g. blackmail or "strange behavior"). And of course quite a few cases involving statesmen trying to prevent a "huge scandal" or even a war. The original timeline afaik ends with him actually preventing Britain from losing WWI ...

James Lawson

Simone talking about the left handed clues and how she uses her right hand then taking her drink in her left hand, having a sip, and putting it down, likely with the handle pointing in the same way, was very funny :D

ThetaSigmaTheOriginal

The numeral thing is real. But it's Suzhou numerals, not Hangzhou as Sherlock referred to them. And not a dialect, but shorthand for numbers.

DanielK

some reactions last week i thought they were actually too quiet, i like when they talk a lot

Simon

Am totally watching the episode and definitely not paying any attention to how much of a BABY Simone’s B&W cat is 🥹

djKENTO

Like half of Sherlock Holmes stores involve murder. All 4 of the novels do... but of the nearly 60 short stories half are about crimes like blackmail or theft or missing people. in fact many of his best stories have no death whatsoever. When you finish this you absolutely must watch Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen as a much older Sherlock on his final mystery which isn't a big murder whodunnit but rather a small personal mystery. His performance made me cry and I'm getting emotional thinking about it. One of the last things my grandma gave me was a book of collected Holmes short stories and I've been a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever since.

Twiska Brand

No, I said last week that the character of Gregory House is named as such as his last name is a play on Holmes, it's a pun. You know, Holmes, Homes, Home, House. And that his friend Dr Wilson is named as such because it's similar to Dr Watson. That is what George was qouting in this video.

Mike W

Gemma Chan who played Soo Lin Yao has been pretty outspoken about the representation in this episode

Mike W

Yeah, definitely recommend Mr Holmes

Tom B

My favorite show herlock! This is a joke just bc of how the thumbnail looks before I click on it

Twiska Brand

I think the actor you are thinking of that was told he wasn't Indian enough was Ben Kingsley. He is half Indian and was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji but was told to change his name by his agent because he didn't look Indian enough for it. And he later said he got a lot more call backs once his name was English sounding.

Jeff K.

Oh man, I completely forgot that was Gemma Chan. So yeah, George, she does speak some Cantonese (both of her parents were born in Hong Kong), but she was born and raised in London.

Matt88g

The show runner Steven Moffat is known for coming up with crazy plots and twist, but often struggles with the execution of those ideas

gfixler

Simone's stepfather knowing of the connection between Holmes and House requires a rather elementary deduction in 6 parts. I'm surprised none of you see it. What must it be like to be in your heads?

ThetaSigmaTheOriginal

I can totally see where George is coming from, re depictions of Chinese culture in western media. It also happens between western cultures. For instance, Mel Gibson really butchered Scottish history to make Braveheart. Depicting the English King - Edward Longshanks - as a devout pagan is one of my favourite go-to examples. The guy was a devout Catholic. But so is Mel Gibson and I think he didn't want to depict a cruel tyrant as someone who shared his faith. He did the same with The Patriot. Both movies are historical fictions, but there's plenty of contemporary examples too. Nor am I necessarily saying they're bad movies, it's just that when you know some history, these errors stand out. Like a doctor watching House or ER, would probably be pointing out to all the medical mistakes in those shows too.

Jaaahn

"what must it be like to be in your heads" talk about unnecessarily condescending.

Logan Raynes

George, while Sherlock is occasionally a consulting detective for Scotland Yard, he also has a private practice taking on any case that interests him from private individuals, or even the government. The majority of his "published" cases are not about murder at all, often instead about blackmail, extortion, or theft.

ThetaSigmaTheOriginal

Like Stephen King is notorious for (that's not a dig at him, both King and Moffat have made some quality content).

Stan the Man

Oh man I thought this was going to be 103 of Sherlock and back to Sopranos. Now I gotta wait another 2 weeks. Stupid time.

Graham Bullman

I can totally see Simone's point, but especially back then, and even now, many people in the UK don't carry any ID. When out of the house, the only form of ID I ever have on me is a credit card.

The Maestro

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss who plays Mycroft in this were in charge of Doctor Who for a while so that's probably where you know them from

Gizmo_Mogwai_

Tuesdays and Wednesday are the best days of the week! yeah Sherlock and STTNG!

mak23686

My knowledge of British police mainly comes from the show "Death in Paradise" (and Hot Fuzz), so any brits are welcome to correct me if I'm wrong. British police ranks are Constable - Sergeant - Inspector - Chief inspector (don't know if there's anything after that). Those ranks only are the uniformed officers who do all the basic legwork. Detectives get additional training and have the same rank progression with "Detective" in front of it. I think both Lestrade and that guy in this episode are Detective Inspectors.

m0lika1 .

oh damn is sherlocks banker 'friend' prince Baelor?

Drake

for the accent, doenst that go for all foreigns to play americans in american movies ? when you talked about doctor house. he has an american accent in the show and thats so vastly different from his normal british accent xD

REDR58

She’s also in 2 MCU movies, as “Minn-Erva” in “Captain Marvel” (2019) and “Sersi” in “Eternals” (2021).

REDR58

To play Gandhi, Kingsley’s skin was darkened a bit.

Robert Brown

According to wiki! The Suzhou numerals, also known as Sūzhōu mǎzi, is a numeral system used in China before the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals. The Suzhou numerals are also known as Soochow numerals, ma‑tzu, huāmǎ, cǎomǎ, jīngzǐmǎ, fānzǐmǎ and shāngmǎ

mak23686

Very nice to see Simone explain German to George (German viewer here).

Richard Pearce

As I put in the comments of the first episode yesterday Sherlock Holmes Short Stories are available on BBC Sounds narrated by Hugh Bonneville

Richard Pearce

Edward I had already been on crusade as well and as for the first night nonsense Edward was one few kings not to have bastards and his 2nd wife 19 when they got married and Edward II didn't get married until he was king 1307 they married in 1308 and Isabella was 12 at the time of her marriage

Amelie W

On people in movies speaking Chinese badly, I think I feel the same way when I see Swedish actors speaking English badly. Like if they have even the tiniest touch of "English the way you learn it in school" dialect I immediately notice and question how somebody working in Hollywood around native English speakers all day and presumably has access to dialect coaches doesn't find this embarrassing. Even though Americans I've polled don't hear anything off. Ah, being bilingual is a double edged sword.

Richard Pearce

Superintendent Chief Superintendent Assistant Chief Constable Deputy Chief Constable Chief Constable

Karen Leah Quinn

Just to Clarify for Simone that the UK doesn't have a standardised photo ID. The only photo ID that most people have is a drivers licence, and it is not something that a person would necessarily carry around day to day if they aren't driving, especially in London where driving is a nightmare and public transport and cabs are so prevalent.

Amelie W

The other day I read to even be allowed a photo ID, if you don't already have one, you need a friend, colleague or neighbor of at least two years to vouch for you, and they can't be a relative, and they need to work in one of a list of about 30 specific "trusted" (high status) professions. I hope that's at least somewhat exaggerated but it feels like Watson being unable to prove his identity is a way to show his lack of friends and social status.

Richard Pearce

Photos on driving licences came in in 98 but I don't think John drives

Mike W

She's really good in Humans, that's a show that should have a reaction.

MasterElodin

If it makes you feel any better George, the German spoken in this episode was also very obviously not native. I assume they just hired British actors for all foreigners so there will be an accent.

Michael Kemmet

Steven Moffat - Simone probably knows him from Doctor Who. Locum work - Fancy medical term(locum tenens) for temp work. Think substitute teacher. Locum tenens is latin for placeholder.

Jeff K.

@RED - and she's also married to someone in the MCU (Dominic Cooper, aka Young Howard Stark).

p0sthum4n

Fun fact: the ancient Chinese numbers are called Suzhou numerals, not Hangzhou. They're included in Unicode and when Unicode standard 3.0 was released in 1999, they were incorrectly identified as Hangzhou numerals. The name was corrected in Unicode 4.0 which was released in 2003, but by then the misnomer had taken on a life of its own. Suzhou numerals evolved from the Southern Song dynasty counting rod system prior to the introduction of Arabic numerals to China. Learned about this the last time I watched this show.

Jeff K.

I'm really looking forward to next week's episode. It's not my favorite this season (Study in Pink is my favorite of the entire series), but... well, if you've seen the show, you know why.

Jeff K.

It's wild how much that happens. Like, this is not remotely on the same level as Sir Ben Kingsley, but I'm a huge fan of Jason Mantzoukas, and he's talked at length about how hard it was for him to get any non-stereotypical roles - despite the fact he's literally a Caucasian man - because he looks "too ethnic." So he's just always been stereotyped into playing Middle Eastern-type characters despite the fact he's a white dude (he's 100% Greek).

OddThomas

Yes! It was bugging me and I realised at the very end.

OddThomas

Tbh I didn't remember this episode at all. Nice to see Gemma Chan though, she was in a great show called Humans playing a robot (this was before EVERY show was doing AI/robot stories like they are now). She was also in Transformers 5 which is a guilty pleasure of mine.

Eversharpe

George being all annoyed at the Chinese but you have to cut Benedict some slack, the poor guy can't even say penguin in English.

REDR58

Neither the US nor Canada has a national photo ID card system and each state issues/province/territory issues its own distinct driver’s license with a photo. I always carry my driver’s license/ID with me as unless I’m going for a walk near my house, I’m driving to get where I need to go.

REDR58

Hugh Laurie (and Cumberbatch, for that matter) have pretty good American accents but their natural ones still slip through a bit. On the other hand, Naomi Watts and Emily Blunt have *very* good American accents.

REDR58

Yes, I forgot about that!

Max Hassam

While the mish-mash Asian culture things may have been a bit "orientalising" as George said, it is worth noting that in-world, the lucky cat shop & the circus are all fronts. They aren't proper businesses and a purely there to appear genuine to the British public & Government. And since John & Sherlock don't drive and Josh was previously a soldier, it's likely he doesn't have a UK license so, other than bank cards, he likely wouldn't have had an ID card/document on him.

REDR58

George, the older bank chairman, Sir William, whose portrait was defaced is dead. Sebastian Wilkes, who met Sherlock at the bank said William was the “former chairman” and that his office was “left here like a sort of memorial” to him. Note there were some boxes stacked around Williams’ desk, presumably packed with personal items.

m

lol at George going "murder gets priority over big bucks" does it? does it really? because the world sure feels like something like this only ever gets the attention it might deserve when big stacks of money are involved (this is plenty cynical, I would contest that mostly, we try to meet crimes with appropriate response... at least outside of the US and certain other - many - countries around the world). Still, whatever someone of Sherlock's caliber is involved in would realistically be all about enormous sums. Except, you know, when it's a hopelessly neurotic sociopath master detective taking cases more or less on a whim, hoping financial issues just vanish by accident. Then I guess you would get murder. Or any of the adjacent pastimes.

Tay Schumaker

Interesting to see your perspective on this one. The conventional wisdom on seasons 1 and 2 are that the second episodes are the weakest while the first and third are very strong

m

Well, and then there's what Sherlock actually does. The truth might surprise you!

m

I am usually team quieter, for this type of content, but also there is little you can do to appease everyone on this particular spectrum: chatty cats want the full experience; the rest just wants the two to serve as reaction dummies, as silly as it sounds. Really nothing anyone can do about this, and it's pointless to try and gauge overall preference. Honestly, I get the impulse, but at this point, all these posts are really conveying is a "hey, I thought you were rambling way too much"-attitude, which usually feels bad to anyone who is well aware or even proud of their "quirk," not that I even think Simon is super talkative during any of their reactions. Just saying, mentioning this dynamic to a reaction channel - a duo of all things - is a bit like telling a reasonably chubby guy that morbid obesity is shortening his lifespan. Yeah thanks, buddy, it's not like I've heard it before... a billion times this year. I think everyone can see you don't mean it that way, at least I do, but some things are just automatically kind of disheartening, if not much worse. They also addressed it plenty, and once drugs and sickness are involved - yup, there goes reason. And besides, I'd honestly still rather have an honest reaction rather than one where everyone is trying to moderate their own speech - pretty easy these days to abridge audio content with proper timing, too.

m

aka the tale of practically all television ever, everywhere what's really funny is, just to highlight how truly overlooked proper multilinguality is to showrunners and studios: we've been living in a world where flawless voice synthesis has been possible for about a decade if you put a competent audio tech and maybe an editor on the job - almost end-to-end with modern methods for the last six-sixteen months, maybe. It takes literal seconds to produce more convincing speech than 99.9% of all actors can muster in their non-native languages, and yet most shows (more excusable) and movies (rarely) do nothing to get the job at least somewhat done. It'll happen once it's truly a singular button, actually, kind of where we are already, finally... but hoo boy, in-universe localization a mess. It also never would be difficult or anything, just look for some German guys, and one of them will provide a better translation than whatever BS everyone (still, lol) pieces together word-by-word. Plus narration. ADR maybe too.

Kyle Fleming

This is my least favorite episode of the entire show. I'm curious if anyone doesn't care for this case at all. On the plus side, the lowest point is now over in my view.

m

It's real, yeah. Crowd-sourced trust, basically, is how I would describe countersignatory passport applications. It's not really exaggerated, but more like: the net is much wider and just about anyone you would have known for long enough, like teachers or educators or - and this is basically a go-to loophole - "pub landlords," can vouch for you. Yes, the more you struggle to find someone who does this for you, the more you fall victim to a society where class, as is always the case, determines your luck; but at the same time it's really not that difficult and just a fairly reasonable heuristic for getting the documents to the people who should have them. This kind of trust is peer-to-peer, more or less, while embassies are basically central authorities of trust, to hamfist this infotech analogy, either can be compromised, and really, either demands more resources pro rata if you're asking poor folks to come be there at a specific time. Think of Switzerland and speeding tickets: getting fined based on your income or even wealth still isn't fair unless everyone has the same wealth banked; if I got some cool millions stowed away, which any rich person does have, pretty much automatically, then even paying billions will leave me infinitely better off than a family barely making do. Never mind social capital, connections... and even if all that fails, you still have said millions left, of which you could still lose a huge chunk and maybe have enough to fend for a couple of years. Not that this isn't a hotly debated issue either; lots of nourishing ground for accusations and ideologies to be flung around. Which is precisely what happens with this, lots of people think it's rubbish.

Dan

Gemma Chan does have a British accent. This was one of her early acting roles and around the same time as this she was also in some episodes of the rather trashy Secret Diary of a Call Girl (some scenes on Youtube, mildly NSFW), a slightly weird advert for Microsoft Bing, and an episode of The IT Crowd which is excellent, also has Benedict Wong and is also related to some other stuff George has referred to in the past. (I'm going to keep mentioning The IT Crowd.)

michael denny

I really liked this show back in the day but its almost painful to watch now. It's so 2010 British, can we just watch Psych instead it's so much better and even mad3 in Vancouver. Please.

Steve Mercier

Yes, the numerical system is real, but it's misnamed in the episode. Sherlock calls it "Hangzhou" when the actual name is "Suzhou".

G4M1L

As for foreign language accents - I can hardly tell East Asian accents apart, but being German, to me it stood out that the German tourist had a clear, although not thick English accent, almost more so than Cumberbatch. I guess getting a native speaker wasn't worth the extra money (pun intended).

Ste Rawlings

I think the thing with the accent change is that at the beginning of the episode, she is hiding who she is, but when she's speaking to Sherlock, she's no longer hiding.

SnabbKassa

also I recently discovered that the lucky beckoning cats started in Japan and then took off all over, so they were never intended by the show to be specific to Chinese culture

REDR58

I haven't seen the series more than one time before this rewatch and not since its original broadcast. I do think the pilot was better than this one. I barely remembered anything about this one at all, which probably says a lot. The Blind Banker hand some interesting moments but overall I think it's quite weak.

CouchCheese

I like George's comments about Gemma Chan's accent being a very general/broad Chinese, because for American roles we see a lot of non-Americans (usually English or Aussie) actors attempt a dialect that is so indistinct that it sticks out for not belonging to any particular region lol. In some ways I think Benedict himself is guilty of that when he plays Doctor Strange.

REDR58

Or just, you know, hire native speakers. for the German tourist couple and the others. Surely there are some hungry German actors floating around London looking to catch a break on TV.

REDR58

And a number of the stories about a dead person that Holmes encounters aren't even necessarily a murder!

REDR58

Ah, The Copper Beeches. I know I keep harping on this series, but the episode of "The Copper Beeches" from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Jeremy Brett has a wonderful adaptation of that story. It features a entertaining argument between Holmes and Watson and guest stars the late Natasha Richardson (wife of Liam Neeson) in one of her very early roles, aged about 22 and it is just a riveting story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnwOdEu4A6Q

MasterElodin

Oh I agree it probably won't be hard to find German actors considering a flight from Germany to London is like 50 bucks. Especially for a tiny role like those tourists. For a main character like the Chinese Clan in this Episode it can be harder I guess as you actually need good actors but you can probably find some random German tourist in like 5 minutes on the street in London.

Marcus Hicks

Her role in The IT Crowd was absolutely hilarious 😆.

Data Cable

Re: House being an adaptation of Holmes, it's hardly a stretch, since (as I just learned myself from the latest episode of the Talk Nerdy podcast) Conan Doyle, a doctor himself, based Holmes on his mentor, doctor Joseph Bell.

Cc Decc

The exit visa thing, according to Gemini: China did not completely abolish restrictions on leaving the country, though it ended the general-purpose "exit visa" system for ordinary citizens in the late 20th century. Instead, China shifted from formal exit visas to a system of passports, travel endorsements, and legal exit bans. History of Exit Controls in China • The Exit Visa Era (1980s): Following the implementation of the 1980 Regulations on Passports and Visas, ordinary Chinese citizens generally needed a specific police-approved exit visa or permission document in addition to a passport to leave the country. • Liberalization and Passports: Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, China gradually phased out mandatory exit visas for routine international travel, allowing citizens to travel with a valid passport and destination visa (though trips to Hong Kong and Macau still require specialized Two-Way Permits). • Current Restrictions (Exit Bans): Rather than traditional exit visas, China actively enforces exit bans under laws like the Exit and Entry Administration Law and expanded regulations. And so lazy writing/research, especially when you are writing for a near omniscient detective who absolutely 100% would know the then-current state of affairs.

BangDroid

Speaking of sudden changing accents. I am first generation Australian born with English/Irish parents. My siblings and I are very much as Australian sounding as anyone else in our region. And our parents only have the faintest vestigial hint of an English accent. But when my sister gets angry, stressed (or on a few instances drunk), she talks with a strong English accent that is very much out of place and obvious. She doesn't even know she's doing it. I've also observed similar phenomena with friends at school under stress. For instance a guy was born in Lebanon but moved here when he was very young and for the most part he had a typical Australian accent with just a hint of something most people couldn't pinpoint. But he would get bullied and under that stress his accent became very noticeable. So I honestly don't think it's too much of a stretch that the character's accent would change particularly when stress is involved. I know it's not a common theme in TV/movie language but it's realistic, even if it wasn't intended.

Angela D. Mitchell

I definitely preferred him as a writer to his showrunning days.

Frank

Nothing against Sherlock, but South Park has an episode where they're trying to catch a serial killer and the detective does a wayyyyy better job of deciphering the difference between right and left handed. Cartmans Incredible Gift. One of my favorite episodes ever

Frank

@Jeff, Jason is so damn funny. The League and Dirty Grandpa have to be my favorite roles of his. I would have never guessed he was Caucasian until you said that.

PhilM

I still consider the Jeremy Brett adaptations to be the best versions of the Holmes stories. He's so good in the role.

John

Re: the Chinese errors/inconsistencies taking George out of the story... I'm a musician by training, and the same thing happens to me when people fake playing instruments or singing in movies or TV. It jumps out at me, and it takes me out of the story (at least temporarily). I try not to let it bother me too much, though, since it's a lot easier and cheaper to hire a generic extra than a professional musician, especially when 99.5% of viewers won't notice.

Angela D. Mitchell

First off, please put "Zero Effect" on your list. It's a wonderful, smart little sleeper gem written and directed by Jake Kasdan ("Freaks and Geeks") that's a truly unique Sherlock Holmes spin while also being funny, suspenseful, and even romantic. Meanwhile, this one was just okay for me. The mystery just felt sort of like an awkward mishmash, I hated the tropes around the Chinese characters, and that "circus" was ridiculous to the point that I found it kind of offensive. And Sherlock's leap of intuition because of the receptionist's hand soap was ridiculously weak. But Sherlock and Watson were fun, and I appreciated that Molly wasn't just a sad sack with a crush, and she was given more to do. Meanwhile, George, I always appreciate what you bring to stories like this because you call out so many of the tropes that are disrespectful to those of Chinese descent (and to those from other Asian countries). My question for the director would be similar to yours -- why not have a Chinese speaker on the set or who worked with the actress, so that her VERY FEW LINES of Cantonese were accurately spoken? The fact that she did it so poorly and it was just a few words, is definitely irritating. However, as far as Simone's accent quibble -- to be fair to the actress, many people have the accent of their new country's language when they learn it. So it didn't bother me that she had an English accent despite obviously speaking English as a second language, because she would have that accent naturally through living there.

Jamie H

Just wanted to say here that it would make a lot of sense to watch season 2 of Sherlock before going back to the sopranos. You could then watch seasons 3-4 during the mid-break of the sopranos.

fforw

The "five figures" offer refers to British pound, of couse. The show is from 2010, but there is no year specified. Until 2008 the pound was worth more like 2 US dollar. Still not that much, but banks are also stingy

fforw

George, if it consoles you: they butchered the little German they had, too.

G Lam

Thank you, I was about to clarify this very point. We brought in a National ID back in the 00's somewhere, I think it lasted a year, and was discontinued. We only ID for drinking if they look under 21 (and that's obviously subjective). We have a few Proof of Age cards, but last time I lived in the U.K, there were at least 2 companies doing it, and many businesses only accepted one of them. So yeah, a driver's licence would be the only option, and only about 1/3 of Londoners drive for their commute, so not having a licence is fairly common.

G Lam

Gemma Chan's father was Cantonese, mother Scottish. She was speaking Cantonese fairly regularly until about the age of 3... But as discussed in interviews after that her father would lose patience with her trying and switch to English. Because of Hong Kong, the U.K historically had a lot more Cantonese speakers than Mandarin.. though I'm fairly certain that ratio is shifting.

Matt Blanchette

And That's Why Hbomberguy Is WRONG About Sherlock

Matt Blanchette

"rather trashy" How dare you, that's Matt Smith porking Billie Piper!

Matt Blanchette

The actress Ayoade Bamgboye's actress changes from Nigerian to London within a single sentence, if you've seen her speak. (She's on SNL UK.)

I🖤Kraken

HBO's making a TV show. Cannot wait...

Robert Schwerthalter

Was just about to point that out. Their german pronounciation was as bad as George and Simone's. Nevertheless, the times I heard proper german in a british/american show is nearly 0. Even when they get it a little bit right, they always butcher it with that stupid and senseless aggressive conotation which no German ever uses (i.e. Elliot in Scrubs)