Slow Afternoon Thought

[moon_custafer]

Apparently I’m really bad at spotting wigs, because I’m always coming across reviews of movies or tv shows which gripe about how bad the wigs were and how they distracted from the performances, and I’m always ashamed that I hadn’t even noticed the actors were wearing wigs in the first place.

Or is this one of those things where people are so keen to shout Aha! You can’t fool me! that they end up with a bunch of false examples?

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

Perhaps a bit of both? You're not particularly focusing on wigs, so you aren't spotting them, but people who are also get exercised by examples that really aren't an issue.

Speaking personally, I'll spot really egregrious examples, but I'm not going to catch the average indifferent wig, nor care. And sometimes it is better not to notice! I wish I hadn't read a comment that mentioned that basically all the male actors' wigs in Nirvana in Fire have the same chunky sideburns, because now it distracts me when it didn't before. Even though before that revelation I *had* noticed the character who isn't wearing that wig and clearly has his own natural sideburns (I wonder if he was allergic to glue or something).

What I spot is ahistoric underwear in C20 dramas. Stop making your 1930s character look like she's wearing a 2010 M&S bra!