The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust. An insight into what should have been the bleeding obvious.
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"In some sense we should have seen this coming." Bank of England official. No shit Sherlock.
Quote: Timbo @ November 28 2011, 8:55 PM GMTPanorama on PFI. Making me quite cross.
I'm cross too, it used to be on BBC.
Anyone watching this Charlie Brooker thing on C4?
yup
Yarg
Bit short for part one.
Quote: Badge @ December 4 2011, 8:29 PM GMTI'm cross too, it used to be on BBC.
Quote: Badge @ December 4 2011, 9:01 PM GMTAnyone watching this Charlie Brooker thing on C4?
It didn't really leave itself anywhere to go once you know the basic plot, and it didn't have the confidence to follow things through to the natural conclusion without being a bit heavy-handed towards the end. Dead Set was much better.
Garrow's Law- Love drama from this turbulent period. But not sure if the character is too much of a contemporary liberal.
Certainly an interesting figure to bring to the screen and more ambitious than most sunday night drama pap.
Yes, when a hero in historical drama is retrofitted with contemporary views they can come across as impossibly good and noble; the historical Garrow was not entirely untainted by the compromises of patronage, but does seem to have been a firebrand with a genuine aversion to corruption and cruelty.
Personally I wish they had focussed more on the court cases and dropped the continuing story arc about his rather dull mistress. It might make his struggle against the might of the establishment more convincing if Regency London was shown to have more than one judge and more than one prosecuting barrister.
I also find it annoying that, when Garrow's lasting importance was in modernising court procedure, that for narrative convenience he is allowed to get away with legal grandstanding that would not be allowed in today's court, let alone those of the Regency period. It rather blurs his actual achievement.
For all my complaints, still one of the better dramas around at the moment, though not a touch on the brilliant City of Vice.
Not that good Charlie.
Quote: Timbo @ December 5 2011, 11:22 AM GMTI also find it annoying that, when Garrow's lasting importance was in modernising court procedure, that for narrative convenience he is allowed to get away with legal grandstanding that would not be allowed in today's court, let alone those of the Regency period. It rather blurs his actual achievement.
For all my complaints, still one of the better dramas around at the moment, though not a touch on the brilliant City of Vice.
A cursory look at the real William Garrow's biog makes him sound a somewhat conservative attorney general in his later years but it sounds as if he was a pioneer of legal gradnstanding.
Before reaching the end of your article I was going to say City of Vice would of answered your criticisms
Yeh Garrow as the uber liberal made the last series seem unrealistic and watery.
Yeh Garrow as the uber liberal made the last series seem unrealistic and watery.
Loved the ladies outfits though!