ALWAYS READ THE LEGAL PACK! You know you’ve been warned. And finally, Claire gets to really, really scream.
SOLVER
Lottie is confident. Confident enough to wear an orange plaid suit. The world will be queuing up to provide needles for this balloon, but let her have her moment in the sun.
The outcome was never in doubt. Lottie has triumphed, her skills are undimmed. She’s allowed a little float.
Darkness gathers… any resemblance between The Waterman and pop impressario Pete Waterman is, of course, purely coincidental. But I did read Pete Waterman’s autobiography a few years ago, and never have I encountered so many fantastic boasts.
Is “chicken in a basket circuit” still a relevant term? I’m not sure that the circuit was in such rude health when I was a teen, let alone now. It was where stars of the fifties and sixties performed to dining audiences when their careers had lost their sparkle. Chicken still appears in baskets, of course. It’s more popular than ever, with Amelia Dimoldenberg just one of many jocund poultry advocates. Ironically, its star has never waned.
Here we are, the final page of Solver, with matters as up-in-the-air, arguably, as they began. Will the series return? I don’t know. We have to think that it might. Series tend to return by popular acclamation, so let me know when you’re ready for a redux.
Next up, seven weeks of something called “Kit + The Wolf”. We’ll have to see what that is tomorrow. I’ll tell you this: it’s not like anything else I’ve done. It’s not even like Mordawwa.