JEEVES AND WOOSTER SERIES 1 REVIEW

By Lev L, Iakov L, Cameron B, Cyrus D, and Aarav S, Year 8

Jeeves and Wooster is a comedy series filmed in 1990-93, starring the beloved BBC comedy duo, Stephen Fry (Jeeves) and Hugh Laurie (Wooster). The series consists of four seasons, where an irresponsible alcoholic Bertie Wooster hires a valet (butler) named Jeeves. Along with Wooster’s unusual friends, they get involved in a variety of troublesome romantic events. This article reviews the first season.

The first scene is set in a court of law, where a hungover Bertie Wooster is prosecuted for theft of a police officer’s helmet, an antic that he and his friends commonly perform. He is then sent home and helped by a new valet, Jeeves, to return to a healthy state. He is visited by his Aunt Agatha (nicknamed the ‘nephew crusher’ by Wooster’s cousins) and is instructed to get engaged to Honoria Glossop, daughter of Sir Roderick Glossop. Reluctant to do so, Bertie hatches a plan to get Honoria married to his obsessive friend Bingo Little. This fails and the Glossops come to lunch at Wooster’s apartment. Luckily, Jeeves has an idea to break off the engagement to Honoria Glossop.

In the second episode, Bertie is determined to propose to Bobbie Wickham. When Barmy defeats him at golf, Bobbie recommends a water-bottle trick that backfires. Bertie is made to watch Aunt Agatha’s over-pampered dog McIntosh and is horrified when Bobbie gives the dog to the spoilt son of a Broadway producer. Tuppy Glossop is infatuated with an opera singer, Cora Bellinger, and has dropped Bertie’s cousin Angela. Her mother, Aunt Dahlia, wants this affair over, and Jeeves produces a plan which involves Bertie singing in public.

In the next episode, Bertie’s Uncle George wishes to marry a young waitress. Aunt Agatha is dismayed and, through Bertie, attempts to offer the girl £100 to break off the engagement. Instead, however, Bertie meets Maud Wilberforce, who has a connection with his uncle. Bertie visits Twing Hall, where Lady Wickhammersley has banned all gambling after Lord Wickhammersley lost the East Wing in a game of shove ha’penny the previous week, according to Jeeves. (It is also mentioned that, a year ago, Lord Wickhammersley lost a car to Lord Ickenham as a result of gambling). Rupert Steggles has surreptitiously arranged to take bets, however, on the events at a village fair. Bertie and Bingo place bets on the competitors, only to find that Steggles has rigged the events. Jeeves duly sorts things out.

In the fourth episode, Aunt Dahlia coerces Bertie into handing out the prizes at Market Snodsbury

Grammar School by threatening to withhold the services of her master chef, Anatole. Newtfancier Gussie Fink-Nottle comes to Jeeves for advice about Madeline Bassett, of whom he is enamoured. Since she is staying at Brinkley Court with Aunt Dahlia, Bertie delegates Gussie to give the prizes. Bertie tries to sort out Tuppy Glossop and Angela Travers’s relationship, Gussie and Madeline’s relationship, and an issue Aunt Dahlia has with her husband — all without the help of Jeeves. Disaster ensues when he recommends that they go without dinner.

In the final episode, Jeeves returns to London to persuade Anatole to return to Brinkley Court, where Bertie subsequently goes to reconcile Angela Travers with Tuppy Glossop, who is growing increasingly suspicious and jealous of his relationship with her. In order to bolster Gussie FinkNottle’s courage to deliver the prizes and propose to Madeline Bassett, both Bertie and Jeeves spike his orange juice. Jeeves finally sorts out all the fractured relationships with a plan to set off the fire alarm.

Jaime R, Year 12...

A fundamental component of numerous religions, throughout the world, is the idea of resurrection or the expectation that the dead will come back to life. Every Easter, Christians commemorate Jesus Christ’s resurrection as the foundation of their religion. Yet what does the resurrection entail for both believers and non-believers?

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