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Ripper Street and Peaky Blinders.
Oct. 21st, 2013 09:17 pmRipper Street is back on next Monday night for a second series :)
Trailer from the official BBC Youtube.
Damien Molony (Hal from Being Human) is appearing in this series, although how often and as who I don't know. You can spot him very briefly a couple of times in the trailer.
Does anybody else watch it?
Also just finished watching on the BBC Iplayer Peaky Blinders. Has anybody else been watching it? Thought it was a very good series and hope they make a second.
I think the thing that got me was that they decided to basically not have any out right good or bad characters. And that there were a goo half dozen points where I thought I knew exactly how they would play it out, how it would have played out in just about everything else and they didn't. There was one where they did, but I can't say without giving away plot. And there's one that they left it on that could end up being cliche, but after how they've obviously played with tropes in parts of it then I don't know how they'll play it out.
It's not comfortable watching. It's not a cosy costume drama or a grand family saga or love saves the day cross class relationship. It's gang warfare and corruption. It's violent and it doesn't shy away from it, it's not glamourised, it's brutal and pervasive, an inescapable part of the characters lives. Nobody in it really comes out as a hero, just about everybody does questionable or objectionable things. Everything in it is driven by the characters actions, and as terrible, foolish or unpleasant as those actions are by the time they take them you know why they have. You can't condone their actions, but you still find yourself wanting them to succeed.
It's on the BBC Iplayer until Thursday if anybody is interested in it. And probably in other places ;) after that.
Trailer from the official BBC Youtube.
Damien Molony (Hal from Being Human) is appearing in this series, although how often and as who I don't know. You can spot him very briefly a couple of times in the trailer.
Does anybody else watch it?
Also just finished watching on the BBC Iplayer Peaky Blinders. Has anybody else been watching it? Thought it was a very good series and hope they make a second.
I think the thing that got me was that they decided to basically not have any out right good or bad characters. And that there were a goo half dozen points where I thought I knew exactly how they would play it out, how it would have played out in just about everything else and they didn't. There was one where they did, but I can't say without giving away plot. And there's one that they left it on that could end up being cliche, but after how they've obviously played with tropes in parts of it then I don't know how they'll play it out.
It's not comfortable watching. It's not a cosy costume drama or a grand family saga or love saves the day cross class relationship. It's gang warfare and corruption. It's violent and it doesn't shy away from it, it's not glamourised, it's brutal and pervasive, an inescapable part of the characters lives. Nobody in it really comes out as a hero, just about everybody does questionable or objectionable things. Everything in it is driven by the characters actions, and as terrible, foolish or unpleasant as those actions are by the time they take them you know why they have. You can't condone their actions, but you still find yourself wanting them to succeed.
It's on the BBC Iplayer until Thursday if anybody is interested in it. And probably in other places ;) after that.