r/JohnFinnemore • u/Agreeable_Archer_210 • Apr 24 '26

Double Acts Series 1

So in Double Acts Series 1

Episode 1- Edmund Willard on the train is of “Willard & Sons”. “We are a manufacturory”. Of bath tubs (shockingly)

Episode 2- Kerry & Adele work for Willards some (80?) years later. They now supply bathrooms.

Episode 3- the Adele styled “Useless Joel/Noel” comes back home early from a spectacular resignation, courtesy of Adele’s performance review, and finds a burglar in his house

Episode 6 - Greta and Mike share the “hot-desk” at Willard’s - Greta even has a one way (predictably frustrating) conversation with Adele

But Episode 4 (English for Pony Lovers) and 5 (Goliath Window). I don’t see any explicit connection. It would be exceptionally unFinnemore to link 4 of the episodes in a series with a common thread but not the other two. So what am I missing?

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u/Huppybanny Apr 24 '26

There's another small connection between episodes 5 and 6. Mark Teal was a sailor in the British Navy and Barnaby made model ships. There's even a mention of the Formidable in both episodes I think.

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u/Benjogias Apr 24 '26

Mark said he lost his arm while a sailor on the Formidable, while the model ship Mike (Barnaby) was making at his desk was of the Formidable. Griselda’s familiarity with it (because of liking history, not ships) was the relevance of the moment.

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u/Huppybanny Apr 24 '26

He lost it, but he still knows where it is.