'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

Yeah, I loved The Writer's Tale. I foudn it particularly interesting in as much as quite a lot of what I thought was RTD just not thinking about what he was doing, was him actively deciding to do something that I just didn't like. I may not agree with his calls, but I respect his work more for knowing that they were deliberate, and not just careless.