Category Archives: Drama

Game of Thrones just got that little bit more sadistic – season 2, episode 4.

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Game of Thrones has been bloody, brutal and gory up until now, but season 2, episode 4 was altogether sadistic. I’ve only just caught up with it, and with episode five due to air tomorrow night, maybe this is last week’s … Continue reading

Dirk Gently the new interconnected series on BBC 4 – I want to Invade Switzerland!

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Today I was talking with a friend about Towel Day and wanting to go to Innsbruck/Austria to celebrate the event in May. It’s where Douglas Adams conceived of the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and every year … Continue reading

Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker: Fifteen million reasons not to watch (well, not quite).

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Confession time: there were several things about this brainchild of Charlie Brooker that made me wince before I’d even turned the telly on.  And so there’s a danger my reception of Fifteen Million Merits might have been destined to be … Continue reading

Top Boy on Channel 4: a modern day tale of two cities – review by Tom Conrad.

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In light of the summer riots this four-part-drama about drugs on a Hackney housing estate could have been nothing more than a quick cash in and sensationalist portrayal of how people in the inner- city slums live. Fortunately it wasn’t. … Continue reading

The Appropriate Adult – A two-part drama starring Dominic West and Emily Watson.

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The two-part drama sees Emily Watson play the titular role of “Appropriate Adult”, an attempt to approach the story of the now infamous serial killers Fred and Rose West from a different angle. An Appropriate Adult, as we quickly learn, … Continue reading

The Hour Episode Three – The Man Who Knew… Brightstone?

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The third episode of Abi Morgan’s new drama saw The Hour become less about a team of 1950’s journalists looking to shake up TV, you know with a pioneering news show that focuses on the truth, and a drama more about … Continue reading

The Hour Episode Two – the power of drama to say what can’t be said otherwise.

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(Contains Spoilers) To be honest I was a little hesitant about watching episode two of Abi Morgan’s The Hour because on further reflection last week’s opening episode didn’t leave a lasting impression, but fortunately episode two of the six-part drama … Continue reading

The Hour on BBC 2 strangely blurs the line between reality and fiction.

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The Hour on BBC 2 is “coming” or more to the point the first episode has come and gone. It started with a close up shot of Ben Whishaw (Freddie Lyon) who told us, “the news reel is dead”. It was immediately a thought-provoking … Continue reading

The Hour – a stylish and new BBC 2 drama by Abi Morgan.

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For those who’ve not been paying attention to the trailers and articles, in every paper and magazine, the eagerly anticipated BBC 2 drama The Hour is on tonight, BBC 2 at 9pm. It’s set in a 1956 London TV newsroom and has … Continue reading

The Killing on Channel 4 – who killed Rosie Larsen?

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The Killing for those who haven’t noticed this channel 4 import, from across the pond, well, it’s a slow boiler of a gritty crime drama based on a popular Danish series called “Forbrydelsen”, which was also apparently popular over here in … Continue reading