The reviews on here are quite incredible; the marks dished out are up there with the greatest cinematic and televisual artworks of the 21st and 20th centuries!
Yes, it's a shocking story - and it was when it first began to be reported upon more than ten years ago. And surely it's a story that should get anyone annoyed, that should get people demanding justice for the underdogs. And it certainly has brought this story to a much wider audience with the result that some of those responsible are beginning to get a bit hot under the collar. Good!
But that aside (the real world, in other words) is this this TV program any good? No, it really isn't. It's a ridiculously syrupy sweet confection. The second village we see is straight out of Camberwick Green. The acting is so overdone that it makes River City look like a class act. Show not tell? No no, this is mass audience stuff so everything must be told. Camilla Long in the Sunday Times quite rightly called it out. Get real!
Yes, it's a shocking story - and it was when it first began to be reported upon more than ten years ago. And surely it's a story that should get anyone annoyed, that should get people demanding justice for the underdogs. And it certainly has brought this story to a much wider audience with the result that some of those responsible are beginning to get a bit hot under the collar. Good!
But that aside (the real world, in other words) is this this TV program any good? No, it really isn't. It's a ridiculously syrupy sweet confection. The second village we see is straight out of Camberwick Green. The acting is so overdone that it makes River City look like a class act. Show not tell? No no, this is mass audience stuff so everything must be told. Camilla Long in the Sunday Times quite rightly called it out. Get real!