If you played drink shots for every Oxford/ Upper Class house cliché, you'd be drunk fifteen minutes in.
Maybe it works for under 30s, as it might appeal if you haven't seen or read this genre which covers a swag of well-made classics.
First cliche is the envious lower/class student masking his yearning for the handsome upper class gorgeous boy. Done to perfection Brideshead Revisited and Talented Mr Ripley thanks.
Then comes rich boy takes poor boy home to gaspingly beautiful rolling-lawns home with a Blue room and a butler. See above plus ...
Over the cliched meet the troubled family gathering, we naturally meet the languid cousin, the jolly father, slightly wafting mother, elfin daughter with slew of social problems etc etc. By this time would not have been surprised if Stephen Fry from "Peter's Friends", the skewed heir to a fortune and his flawed ensemble, turned up!
A loose script, character light acting and blatant concept lifting makes it "quite tedious Felix."
Maybe it works for under 30s, as it might appeal if you haven't seen or read this genre which covers a swag of well-made classics.
First cliche is the envious lower/class student masking his yearning for the handsome upper class gorgeous boy. Done to perfection Brideshead Revisited and Talented Mr Ripley thanks.
Then comes rich boy takes poor boy home to gaspingly beautiful rolling-lawns home with a Blue room and a butler. See above plus ...
Over the cliched meet the troubled family gathering, we naturally meet the languid cousin, the jolly father, slightly wafting mother, elfin daughter with slew of social problems etc etc. By this time would not have been surprised if Stephen Fry from "Peter's Friends", the skewed heir to a fortune and his flawed ensemble, turned up!
A loose script, character light acting and blatant concept lifting makes it "quite tedious Felix."