TV Series

This morning watched all 4 episodes of something called The Game. It was a channel 5 drama. Now I know I must be mad as I think I've never ever seen a decent drama on channel 5. It was, as expected, absolutely rubbish. It also confirmed to me what a poor actors both Jason Watkins and Robson Green are.
 
Caught the last 2 episodes of Edge of Darkness on BBC 4 last night. Full blown political writing from Troy Kennedy Martin, covering the Nuclear deep state, class stratification in the civil service as well as the environmental movement and the then current miner's strike.

It was originally shown in autumn 1985 on BBC 2 then due to the impact it made was repeated a few weeks later on BBC 1. It had a genuinely great cast of supporting actors you'd recognize but the 2 leads were I thought rather special. Bob Peck as a dour York's police inspector and Joe Don Baker as Jedburgh made a huge impression on me as the guy who saw visions of his dead daughter and the larger than life CIA spook.

It's tone is bleak but I think that's one of it's strengths, as is the amazing score by Eric Clapton. The director Martin Campbell would make Goldeneye 10 years later.

Just a world away from reality tv with z listers or relationship nonsense or by the numbers cop shows. The revived play for today on C5 is similarly anodyne and lack any of the impact of those plays of the 70s and 80s. Taking risks making drama about unexpected subjects, there's literally no will to stray from the conformist path these days. Edge of Darkness is a reminder when tv drama was daring and challenging.
 
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John Adams (TV Mini Series 2008) ⭐ 8.4 | Biography, Drama, History

1h | 12
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Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826

Superb series.
 
Aba452 said:
Caught the last 2 episodes of Edge of Darkness on BBC 4 last night. Full blown political writing from Troy Kennedy Martin, covering the Nuclear deep state, class stratification in the civil service as well as the environmental movement and the then current miner's strike.

It was originally shown in autumn 1985 on BBC 2 then due to the impact it made was repeated a few weeks later on BBC 1. It had a genuinely great cast of supporting actors you'd recognize but the 2 leads were I thought rather special. Bob Peck as a dour York's police inspector and Joe Don Baker as Jedburgh made a huge impression on me as the guy who saw visions of his dead daughter and the larger than life CIA spook.

It's tone is bleak but I think that's one of it's strengths, as is the amazing score by Eric Clapton. The director Martin Campbell would make Goldeneye 10 years later.

Just a world away from reality tv with z listers or relationship nonsense or by the numbers cop shows. The revived play for today on C5 is similarly anodyne and lack any of the impact of those plays of the 70s and 80s. Taking risks making drama about unexpected subjects, there's literally no will to stray from the conformist path these days. Edge of Darkness is a reminder when tv drama was daring and challenging.
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TV today is a reflection of our society. Younger people are no longer socially aware and are obsessed with social media rather than the real world. I grew up in a time when young people were politically active on all sorts of issues and took to the streets on a variety of issues. Today I hardly know of any young person who buys a paper.
Perhaps now they are just cynical
Television now has to fight for a more fragmented audience which in many instances has the attention span of a gnat. They don't want to have to think or be challenged. As a consequence commissioning editors pander to the lowest common denominator. Any channel that tries to deal with social issues will be lambasted for being full of lefties and wokeism. In this respect both the BBC and Channel4 are shadows of what they once were.
Can you imagine what the reaction would be if a series such as ' Boys from the Blackstuff ' was aired today
 
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Criminally underused in that recent mini-series. Raylan Givens was the star of Justified but, for me, Boyd and Ava were what kept me watching.

First saw Goggins in The Shield & I really disliked him in it. I've loved him in everything I've seen him in since so I should give The Shield a rewatch.
 
I love having the time to watch out for stuff that has great potential.

So, with that in mind, I present to the thread 'Last Samurai Standing' on Netflix.

Okay, there's some holes and budget issues in such a fantasy offer, but I am loving it!!

There's some excellent fight scenes, brief and medium, and some unexpected outcomes, but such is the attraction of Asian TV for me, at times.

It's a sleeper, peeps. Get on it!
 
Paul Moulden's Golden Balls said:
Criminally underused in that recent mini-series. Raylan Givens was the star of Justified but, for me, Boyd and Ava were what kept me watching.

First saw Goggins in The Shield & I really disliked him in it. I've loved him in everything I've seen him in since so I should give The Shield a rewatch.
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Mr Goggins has his knockers...
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Bigga said:
I love having the time to watch out for stuff that has great potential.

So, with that in mind, I present to the thread 'Last Samurai Standing' on Netflix.

Okay, there's some holes and budget issues in such a fantasy offer, but I am loving it!!

There's some excellent fight scenes, brief and medium, and some unexpected outcomes, but such is the attraction of Asian TV for me, at times.

It's a sleeper, peeps. Get on it!
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I added that to my "to watch" queue recently along with The Dark Dice which appeared at the same time. Good to hear that it's a decent watch.
 
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