garsonfarm
Joined Aug 2011
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Repeated in May 2023 in an inconspicuous late night slot on BBC4, this was a sharp reminder of how 30 years ago the BBC would produce excellent dramas where the power of the story was amplified by subtlety and understatement rather than exaggeration and flamboyance. A simple plot about an elderly couple coming to terms with the imminent demise of one of them, and how together they realise what they've achieved with their lives, as they journey from their Skye croft to visit each of their five children around Britain. There's a lot of social commentary about the state of the nation in the early 1990s, but it's used as a backcloth for what is basically a love story. Superbly acted by the main characters to give a genuine warmth to the inevitable ending. Highly recommended.
At school I was taught a good story should have a beginning, a middle and an end. The problem with Season 1 is that the 8th and final episode does not bring any ending to the storylines. I spent ages trying to find more episodes to give a satisfying conclusion, but they don't exist.
If this is a device to set up a second season, it's too cynically engineered, and leaves a frustrating aftertaste for a journey which had been enjoyably addictive and exciting, but to then let it all dribble away like that is criminal and a big turn off for wanting to watch any sequel in case they pull the same stunt again.
If this is a device to set up a second season, it's too cynically engineered, and leaves a frustrating aftertaste for a journey which had been enjoyably addictive and exciting, but to then let it all dribble away like that is criminal and a big turn off for wanting to watch any sequel in case they pull the same stunt again.
Series 1 was good but Series 2 was a mess - they literally lost the plot - the unusual central saga of S1 is abruptly written out in ep 2.02 without being concluded, leaving a great big hole which they desperately try to fill with melodramatic romances between cardboard cut-out characters which even Eastenders would reject as too clunky. Meanwhile a nutter sets off homemade bombs around Dundee for no real reason, even on nutter-logic. It's all become very silly ...
Please either let it die now, or if anyone is desperate enough to commission a 3rd series, bring back the unfinished central plot from S1 and focus on that without trying to throw all the soap opera froth into the mix. And bring in a better director and scriptwriter who can give the cast something less wooden to work with.
Please either let it die now, or if anyone is desperate enough to commission a 3rd series, bring back the unfinished central plot from S1 and focus on that without trying to throw all the soap opera froth into the mix. And bring in a better director and scriptwriter who can give the cast something less wooden to work with.