Britain seems to do better at one-off series with a set number of episodes. Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness and Our Friends in the North are all equal to or better than any of your US dramas.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Thursday, 11 September 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
Honourable Woman disqualified on account of the first three episodes imo
― Abandoned Amusement/FUN SHIRTS (seandalai), Sunday, 14 September 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link
Is this the closest thing we have to a general British TV drama thread? Anyway, I finished watching Years and Years last night. Fantastic stuff.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Thursday, 4 July 2019 07:31 (four years ago) link
I finished it last night too, would not go as far as fantastic, but it wasn't bad, afraid I'm too cynical to buy that ending with the fact that we run concentration camps in the UK of 2019 and nobody seems to care.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 July 2019 08:24 (four years ago) link
- Spoiler alert -
Really good but not fantastic otm. I really enjoyed the series (great cast and wow, Emma Thompson especially was brilliant). The penultimate episode was the best, but I thought the finale with the whole 'liberating Viktor' arch was a bit much. I don't think it's cynical per se: there's concentration camps all over the world (UK and US, too), but it hardly creates the stir it should.
But, as I said, pretty much great acting all around and RTD either got a lot of things right/made them scarily believable. It's just that some things aren't even predictions any more, they're real already :-/
Do wonder if there will be a second season, and if it can be 'not bonkers' after how this ended (with Edith uploaded in water molecules etc)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 4 July 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
There will not be a second series.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 4 July 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
the resolution will not be televised
― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 July 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
Is this the closest thing we have to a general British TV drama thread?
I tried to get one going a (shockingly long) while back but it didn't take -
Rolling UK drama thread - "Paul Abbot, do you have David Simon's number by any chance?"
― chap, Friday, 5 July 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
No programme that good should be tucked away on a rolling thread.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 July 2019 10:05 (four years ago) link