mordecai's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
nwhyte's review
The Beautiful People is set mainly in a health club, which will definitely appeal to those like me who often listen to Doctor Who while on the exercise machines in the gym. It's a rather slight plot, not awfully dissimilar from The Leisure Hive (of the same era). Lalla Ward does a great job of it, though. My biggest gripe has nothing to do with either writing or acting: it is that the four episodes are very uneven in length - 25 minutes, then 18, then 12 and 12 again, with a couple more moments that sounded like they might have been potential episode endings in the middle. That's just poor pacing, and leaves the listener (or at least this listener) thrown off balance.
kmccubbin's review
1.0
Wasting the great Lalla Ward on a story based around fat jokes is just a crime.
Jonathan Morris also wrote the surprisingly racist "Flip-Flop" and I think I'll be steering clear of his work from here on out.
Jonathan Morris also wrote the surprisingly racist "Flip-Flop" and I think I'll be steering clear of his work from here on out.
dabnor's review
4.0
The Beautiful People is pure fluff, no real depth to it and yet I do really like it.
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