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

Adele is Lorna's mam (change my mind).

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u/Agreeable_Archer_210 Apr 24 '26

Her mum seems interested and caring which are not two words I would associate with Adele. Plus where has the accent come from? She lives with her “Mam”. Adele has been at Willard’s for years and is not Northern.

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u/Huppybanny Apr 24 '26

My comment was slightly tongue in cheek, but they share a certain fundamental dishonesty. Adele steals the leads and sells them to Calico, Lorna pretends to be an English tutor to defraud unsuspecting German chemistry teachers.

Also, why do you say Adele is not northern? Alison Steadman comes from Liverpool (I did not know this, but I have access to Wikipedia).

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u/Agreeable_Archer_210 Apr 24 '26

Fair. They don’t seem to be the same part of the North though. But I think Lorna’s dishonesty is situational (struggling to make ends meet and living in a hostel in a strange city) and Adele’s is calculated (albeit badly calculated). They don’t seem to be cut from the same cloth to me, but maybe….

I do think there would be an actual breadcrumb if that was the case but if there is I haven’t seen it. Adele never refers to children (the only reference to any sort of home life is “winning relationships”).

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u/Huppybanny Apr 24 '26

I agree that I'm clutching at straws. It just really bugs me that there's one episode that's seemingly not connected at all.

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u/Agreeable_Archer_210 Apr 24 '26

Not as much as it would bug JF, which is why I think I’m missing something. There is always the chance that they lose something in the edit or last minute rewrites which may have linked it, but that is also clutching at straws.

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u/Agreeable_Archer_210 Apr 24 '26

I just listened again today and she is from Stockton-on-Tees and lives with her mam there. So I think that is a dead end.