It was constructed over a year, with Coogan and Brydon, the journey connected to Byron throughout. Whilst the actual filming is improvised, there's clearly stories going on - here with Brydon's affair and Coogan's family relationship. It looks simpler than it is - for one thing there must be a hell of a lot of material to cut, and more than one take of things - there's usually three editors on any given 30 minute episode.
That wonderful Strauss, Four Last Songs - Sunset - is used wonderfully. Though when indispensable PA Claire Keelan references Contempt and that 'great piece of music, but it just keeps coming back on, again and again' - you wonder whether that's a sort of in-joke criticism of itself.
Doesn't make you miss Italian food or Italy at all.
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