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.
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.
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.
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.
Blackcurrant financier, an almond-flavoured sponge, served with white wine sabayon is a perfect ending to an intricate but not over-elaborate menu scheme.
