Harry's voice is an intriguing instrument, smokier and less hard than of old, but she seemed hemmed in, metaphorically and literally, by the over-elaborate nature of her musical surroundings.
This results in a kind of over-elaborate case-study where the characters appear more interesting for what they represent than what they are actually seen doing on screen.
Blackcurrant financier, an almond-flavoured sponge, served with white wine sabayon is a perfect ending to an intricate but not over-elaborate menu scheme.
My personal reservations have centred on a tendency to over-elaborate and lack the kind of anthemic songs that might penetrate beyond their core demographic.
Unbelievably successful since its launch in 2005, this is car-crash cuisine, a lesson in how not to feed people, as the over-elaborate competes with the over-ambitious and the downright disgusting.