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Oh my god the scene where Robin leaves Matthew was so good. It was so raw and powerful, so authentic. The way she immediately broke down in the taxi was perfect too. So compelling omg the acting on this show is phenomenal at times.

#cb strike #robin ellacott #bc strike s2 ep3 #lethal white #I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen #it was just done so well

I started watching the Cormoran Strike series on iplayer this week. When I got to Lethal White I saw the name "Joseph Quinn" come up on the credits and thought ... "Wait - isn't Joseph Quinn... Eddie from Stranger Things?"

And then he came on the screen (playing Billy Knight) And it was Eddie!

What follows is live footage of me spotting Eddie Munson in Cormoran Strike:

#Cormoran Strike #Eddie Munson #stranger things #lethal white

We should be well used by now to the way in which certain pricks will twist reality to make J. K. Rowling look bad, but I'm still amazed at one of the wildest stories about her. The one about the Strike actress "she had fired" who won a lawsuit for it. Now, now, it just so happens thar back when this happened, I was working for TV and film in London for several years, and I was particularly engaged with the BBC, so I actually can explain the actual truth away from the delusions of a certain gang.

Back in the days of Career of Evil, Antonia Kinlay played Sarah Shadlock, and she was meant to reprise the role in Lethal While, filmed in 2019. She would've been 4 months pregnant by the start of the filming, and before she could do it, she was fired. The team had concerns about her pregnancy confusing viewers and being difficult to conceal, but she won a pregnancy discrimination claim because the judge said they could've concealed it.

Now let's get the facts right. Who actually hired then fired Kinlay? Brontë Film and Television. And yeah that's J. K. Rowling, but you've got to be frankly delusional to think she would've, in any way, been aware as a top boss with lots to do, that her company was going to unfairly dismiss someone. They maybe told her the character would be recast for scheduling conflicts, or that she got pregnant and pulled out. Like, the top boss of a production company is not involved in that, nobody involves them. There are departments who handle these things independently and that sometimes, as it happened, they get it wrong. It's also a fairly new company so I hope they learn and do better. But pointing the finger at Rowling herself is just ridiculous.

No further action was taken. The company admitted they got it wrong but acted in good faith, and paid Kinlay the money. And frankly, they acted quite well because I know plenty of horror stories of productions mistreating and being unfair with actors, so it goes to show Brontë is actually a very good company. The BBC doesn't treat people so well. Netflix doesn't either. I've worked with both.

These are the kinds of things I wish women didn't have to be put through any more, and I hope Kinlay sets a precedence. But blaming Rowling is just finding a convenient scapegoat. She was not personally involved with any of it and was happy when it got solved. And that's all.

#cormoran strike #j. k. rowling #antonia kinlay #career of evil #lethal white #film and tv #bronte film and tv

Kilburn

I got thinking about Kilburn this week because I was due to be in London doing Strike things, Kilburn keeps cropping up in the books and I have never been there.

I know of four connections but there might be more:

Rochelle Onifade's aunt lives there (The Cuckoo's Calling),

Robin pays a deposit on a room in a shared house there (Lethal White),

Pat Chauncey lives there (The Ink Black Heart) and

In the TV adaptation of The Ink Black Heart, Robin's flat is there and not really in Walthamstow (thanks to @ludicrousmoniker for this!)

Rochelle's funeral might have been in Kilburn but I don't think we know enough about that to be sure. The Cuckoo's Calling mentions a North London cemetery, which could be Paddington Old Cemetery, but equally could be Hendon or Golders Green. The only other clue is that the mourners walk from the funeral service to the wake at the Red Lion pub. Of course, it might have been a fictional Red Lion, but assuming it was real just for fun, I haven't found a good candidate yet; there was a Red Lion pub in Kilburn in walking distance (although not easy walking distance) but it seems it had changed its name by 2007. My jury is still out, but I am planning to stroll around the other cemeteries to see if they are a better fit.

The only certain book location is Kilburn High Road, where Strike, having dropped Pat home, goes to buy some essentials after the office is bombed in The Ink Black Heart. Here it is in all its glory.

This is Robin's TV flat, I think. It's right by the beautiful Kilburn Park tube station and some interesting buildings, of which more to come.

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Joseph Quinn as Billy Knight: Strike // Lethal White

#joseph quinn #strike #lethal white #ok so I have not giffed any strike for the last two series because I really have struggled with the ethics of it #even though I don't pay anything to watch it #is it ok to gif faces of actors I love and say look I love these people #even when they're in problematic media #ugh I just DON'T KNOW especially as ok I have giffed media by problem people probably all my gif life #but also a lot of those people are now dead and not wielding power in the current world #what I do know is this is the only series where I am not just looking at TOM BURKE'S FACE all the time #because joseph is FUCKING AMAZING in it and even on a third watch he's magnetic and it's so hard to watch #because billy is so fucked up and damaged and traumatised yet soft and sweet and man that is just joseph's forte isn't it #and I just want to look at his face all the time these days #my wee gifs

Book 10 of 2025 (Reread 4 of 2025)

Summary When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott — once his assistant, now a partner in the agency — set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.

They changed a lot from this book for the show. The almost kiss happens at the hospital, the whole side plot of the hospital is not in the show. Robin's panic attack in the car is because Winn calls her, not Jimmy...

The plot of this book is more complex and it takes a while to figure it all out. I think their big break was around page 630? It takes a while. But the most interesting in this book is Strike and Robin's private lifes. Robin's marriage falling down is the big thing in this one. (And wow, the stuff Matthew says to her!)