Cox is, of course, effortlessly good, but Strong, as embattled heir apparent Kendall, and Sarah Snook, as Shiv (arguably the most capable of the Roy clan), spit out Armstrong's
rat-a-tat dialogue like it's poetry.
With the help from
Rat-A-Tat (a giant rat) and from regulars Steve the Werewolf, FAQ and The BeardedWitch, Princess Pumpalot and Guffy embark on another absurd adventure.
Hilmar is an appealingly spunky heroine and verbal
rat-a-tat with Sheehan's apprentice allows the darling buds of romance to appear.
With sunshine come door-to-door pests WHAT can be more annoying than the continuous knocking on your door about jet washing the drive or felling your trees, the list of jobs that you did not realise that you needed doing until that
rat-a-tat on your door.
Ripped-from-the-headlines cultural commentary aside, the show's main appeal is the old-school
rat-a-tat dialogue and its unstinting portrait of the clash between boomers and millennials in the workplace.
RAT-A-TAT See, you're telling me, all we are is echoes.
Suntrap is on late, but it needn't be, because the humour is schoolboyish - groan-worthy puns,
rat-a-tat one-liners - and in the first episode there are so many bird-related jokes, someone must have studied avian humour at a pollytechnic.
His
rat-a-tat shotgun delivery of the latest scores and stats goes starkly silent when there's talk of a Hartlepool score flash.
Think a younger, hairier Woody Allen, with the
rat-a-tat New Yoik drawl and delivery and you've got it.
After as visually stunning, but mostly stately, opening act, The Nutcracker erupts into exciting action after the interval with a
rat-a-tat of breathtaking dance routines.
This was a much slower process, but by opening night we'd gotten into the rhythm and now have that
rat-a-tat rivalry--that chemistry, that yin-and-yang factor that people always liked about Linda and me being together.
Director Mangold generates delicious tension from the claustrophobic motel setting, which is made all the more foreboding by the constant
rat-a-tat tat of rain on the apartment roofs.