WE LOVE THE SMUT

 We just finished three discs of (mostly) highly-entertaining British Smut, courtesy of Masterpiece Theatre.  RECKLESS tells a pretty conventional story of lust, infidelity and bad decision-making, but thanks to the gravitas of the radiant Francesca Annis and our hero, Michael Kitchen, it generally rises above the somewhat unoriginal story.  Ironically, the weak link here is Robson Green, who I guess is supposed to be sexy and dangerous, but is way too beady-eyed for my taste.  (By the end, I was really tired of hearing him intone "I luuuv you" in his Manchester accent.)  Over-all, the story is well-paced and crisply acted.  Watch out for a lame ending, though, and Larry Mullen Jr.'s cousin as the Irish doctor friend.