Join the Society for an exercise in Strange Judgment! This week we have stepped into the Weird Circle for this adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s short story Un Drame au bord de la Mer. A mother and father are forced to decide the fate of their self-serving son. How well does this version capture the themes of the classic 19th century tale of responsibility and consequences? Are we going to get angry emails from small French fishing villages? Did somebody sell our furniture? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think:
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I hated this. Could not get into it at all. I was bored and annoyed, in equal measure. I did chuckle for a moment when the son had his first line, I was like “is that Phil Harris?” and then for a few minutes I was picturing Phil Harris in a child’s sailor suit refusing to do a French accent, and then I was almost a little bit interested, imagining it as a sketch on The Jack Benny Show, but, meh, it went back to boring. I DID enjoy you guys giggling every time you mentioned Balzac, though, that was… Read more »