Just downloaded and starting it now from iplayer.......shame it’s got the sign bloke on it but I’ll persevere
Great series and thoroughly enjoying it (1 episode left to go). Amazing to see such a sad history of just one house. Agree Olusoga seems a very charming and intelligent historian. Thanks for the recommendation G
My pleasure young sir. I like the way that Olusoga does not hide his sympathies. But he did not dwell on his own experiences growing up in Gateshead with a Nigerian dad and Geordie mum, which were pretty horrible (eventually forced to move out by NF harassment) or allow this to dent his love for the city. He tells a great story about being knocked down in the playground when he was 5 or 6, and a bigger ‘tough boy’ about 9 or 10 came over - to help him. It was Gazza, they went to the same school. Gazza needs all the good press he can get nowadays.
You're going to love Season 2 - four episodes in, and she's gone nuts again - brilliant. Think it's due on BBC in June, but we couldn't wait that long!
Just watched the last of this series. Excellent throughout. I think I mentioned it on here before, but Olusoga's Black and British series is well worth watching too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082x0h6
Disappointing - felt they rushed the last 20 minutes, and then left us all hanging. At least you'll have Killing Eve next week!
It would’ve been ridiculous to have had one of the main three to have been the baddie given what we’ve seen in previous series. They didn’t have sufficient time to develop the relevance of any other character, so became pretty obvious that it was going to be Gill Biggelow - she was the only one left, really. Expect a shark to be waterskied over in the next series.
It was ridiculous that Hastings retained his job as well. But it’s only a story. Jed Mercurio can get away with anything it seems. He can never have imagined that it would run to this many series already, so I would expect the whole thing to get ever more tenuous and loose, when the early series were really tight and coherent- if still (hopefully) completely unrealistic. Decent entertainment, it’s kept me watching even if in slack jawed ‘oh FFS’ mode. Killing Eve, with its highly stylised violence, total disregard for realism and humour is much more my cup of tea. Though drinking a cup of tea in this straitjacket is tricky.
Did you see that Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who wrote the first series of Killing Eve and Fleabag is co-writing the new Bond film - could be fun!
Need something daft to brighten your evenings - Matt Berry (Toast of London) involved in a TV series remake of Kiwi film What We Do In The Shadows, but moved from Wellington to Staten Island, New York. A mockumentary about vampires going about their daily lives, fights with each other and werewolves. Not sure what channel it'll be on (think it's made by FX) but it's a good laugh.
I really like Matt Berry, but What We Do In The Shadows is brilliant as it is, no need for a remake. It can’t be more than 5 years old anyway, and the idea will run thin pretty fast. Though I see Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement from the film are involved in the series too, so it should be high quality silliness.
