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Can You Keep a Secret? ★★★½

As grand as it sounds, once you start calling someone a national treasure it tends to limit what they can do. For an artist, it can mean that every project has to be judged as a fitting use of their talents, even if their talent has a simple, welcome basis. Thankfully Dawn French , the British comic who earned the rank of national treasure for the likes of French and Saunders and The Vicar of Dibley , has come back to the sitcom. French has always been funny, and she is funny once more in this drily farcical comedy.

Craig Roberts (left), Mark Heap and Dawn French in Can You Keep A Secret?

In the BBC’s Can You Keep a Secret? , French plays Debbie Fendon, a retired grandmother in England’s West Country who has the impervious confidence, and perhaps the streak of self-delusion, required to attempt to get things done her way. If that means going against the system, then that’s OK.…