He really is that Goode

This week: I contemplate the Goode-ness of Matthew, and I show you some good boys & girls as well as the most exquisite baubles

Matthew Goode, Jenson Button and spaniels, photographed in the Scottish Highland for the brilliant advertising campaign for Hackett.

Happy Wednesday!

THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS

TV

Is Matthew Goode the best British actor of his generation? I think he might be. I have come to this bold conclusion - bold because the list of brilliant male actors in their forties (Goode is 47) is, happily, long - having watched him first in Dept Q, and then a few months later, in The Offer (although the latter was made before Dept Q - it was released in 2022). It was a felicitous coincidence, watching these two wildly different series in relatively quick succession, because it allowed me to truly appreciate Goode’s range. I have written about Dept Q before, so won’t expand on the series itself; for the purpose of this argument let’s just bear in mind he plays a fictional detective, a long-time English transplan…