![]() This raises the usual question about collocational association: Are these collocational differences random and unpredictable facts about lexical attraction and repulsion? Or do they follow in some way from the meanings of shed and doubt and cast and light? "casting doubts" or "sheds light" would be counted.) (The square brackets mean that I inquired about sequences of lemmas, so that e.g. Judging from the frequencies in COCA, "shed doubt" is indeed the most improbable cell in the table of pairwise associations: Correcting a student's paper I came across: "This behavior seems to shed doubt on treatments which always regard V2 as head." "Shed light", "cast doubt (on)", OK, but "shed doubt (on)" doesn't quite compute for me. Staggeringly good TV.I am having one of those moments. ![]() Lancashire’s performance is nothing short of awe-inspiring, but it’s the emotionally real, character-driving writing that brings these characters to life so beautifully, whether in humanising a monster as he reaches out to his son, or completely subverting established finale norms with a simple, heartfelt conversation held over a kitchen table. ![]() Arriving seven years after the previous series - Wainwright smartly delaying the show’s return until Ryan (Rhys Connah) was old enough to carry more of the dramatic weight - this not only saw Sergeant Cathering Cawood on the verge of retirement, but also brought her long-running conflict with criminal Tommy Lee Royce (a brilliant James Norton) to a head once and for all -prying open the cracks in her relationships with both Ryan and sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran) along the way. Sally Wainwright’s blisteringly good story of on-the-beat policing in Halifax was already top-tier television by the end of its first two series, but this third and final chapter proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that her show is an undisputed masterpiece.
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