The Street..Jimmy McGovern
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London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Well, I'm watching this still, is anyone else?
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Yep, another good hour of telly again last night. This series has really kept my attention, have to say.
Anyone see tonights?
Good episode I thought. Not seen Anna Friel since Brookside really.She looked well
The young fella has been in something else recently but I can't remember what?
e2a: remembered, he was in Red Riding
He was also the lead man in that series on Channel 4 - Plus One - where his girlfriend had dumped him for Duncan out of Blue and each week he was trying to find some stunning bird to go to the wedding with him, with not much success.
I liked this week's one with the soldier. Hard to watch in places, but still pretty compelling. And I knew the trifle was a gonner the minute I saw Siobhan Finneran pick it up.
But there's a thing - if Anna Friel only moved into The Street very recently to get her kids into that school, as we were told last week, how come she even knew who Nick was?
From last week's episode, Nick was the guy who helped to get rid of her plumber boyfriend when he turned up at her door. So her story was obviously set before Nick was posted overseas.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
She did say " . . . he's in the army" when she called him over to try and get rid of plumber loverboy.
I remembered this lunchtime the look of the ticket inspector when he looked at the face on the travel warrant and then Nick, at that point we hadn't seen his whole face but the inspector did.
I remembered this lunchtime the look of the ticket inspector when he looked at the face on the travel warrant and then Nick, at that point we hadn't seen his whole face but the inspector did.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
It was good to see an honest, decent drama about the grievously wounded, of whom there must be so many now.
I liked the battle he had to feel secure with his partner's motives, and similarly with overcoming the demonization of Muslims (which he'd obviously bought into somewhere along the line). The actual outcome didn't bother me too much as the important stuff was in the process.
And while those two issues were resolved he was still left with the guilt about the death of the people around him when the bomb exploded, with longterm unemployment and lifelong disfigurement.
I enjoyed Jimmy McGovern's female characters as well. He represent well the impact on them and their choices and circumstances when the injured come home.
As with last week, his research was excellent.
Here is this series so far
I liked the battle he had to feel secure with his partner's motives, and similarly with overcoming the demonization of Muslims (which he'd obviously bought into somewhere along the line). The actual outcome didn't bother me too much as the important stuff was in the process.
And while those two issues were resolved he was still left with the guilt about the death of the people around him when the bomb exploded, with longterm unemployment and lifelong disfigurement.
I enjoyed Jimmy McGovern's female characters as well. He represent well the impact on them and their choices and circumstances when the injured come home.
As with last week, his research was excellent.
Here is this series so far
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
which will now be neatly skipped over, cos it takes too long to show. Cos this is the last series, I fear McGovern is trying to make everything to nice, which he didn't do before. Too many happy endings. Wrong.
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I don't really understand this 'happy ending' idea. It infers they all lived happily ever after when, in fact, the piece ends on a wedding day several months after he returns. I don't think the idea was the couple would always remain married and have lots of grandchildren, just that they'd overcome the re-adjustment after his return horrifically injured - and so it will be for many hundreds in real life.
It's equally true to say many returning soldiers like him will eventually end up in a pit of despair, and attempt suicide more than once because the trauma of how they look and what they did doesn't always recede. But many will also get married first.
This piece addressed issues pertaining to the return only and in an adult way, it didn't indicate a "happy" or a sad long-term conclusion.
It's equally true to say many returning soldiers like him will eventually end up in a pit of despair, and attempt suicide more than once because the trauma of how they look and what they did doesn't always recede. But many will also get married first.
This piece addressed issues pertaining to the return only and in an adult way, it didn't indicate a "happy" or a sad long-term conclusion.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I'm finding this Cinderella mindset in relation to drama a little odd, so I'll leave things there.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Fucking hell that was an emotional roller-coaster - that was probably the best one so far. And only a semi-happy ending!
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Peoples' pre-occupation with happy endings is bizarre when the entire series is about capturing the country at a specific moment. It's like you can't separate an adult concept from fairy stories and Hollywood endings.
I hate to be the one to break the news, but there is no such thing as ever-after, happily, sad, or otherwise.
And sometimes it's actually about the journey itself!!
I hate to be the one to break the news, but there is no such thing as ever-after, happily, sad, or otherwise.
And sometimes it's actually about the journey itself!!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
oh do fuck off with your pseudo-intellectual posturing. TV programmes (for that is what we are talking about) finish, they stop and credits roll. That is their ending. At that moment in time, it is a happy scene, or a not particularly happy scene, or maybe something else. the first three were quite definitely 'happy', whilst last nights wasn't.
No one here needs lecturing like you do your O' level class.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Shity ending.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
talking of which:
"It's all in a day's work for a voiceover artist, but Timothy Spall added a bit of a personal touch to his narration of Sky One's UK Border Force. Spall was taken aback during recording on the doc, which tracks the work of immigration teams, when he saw footage of a raid on a curry house in Cowes that had employed illegal immigrants. As it turns out, just that week, he'd stormed out of the same establishment after a row over the bill."
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
just watched the end of that episode (the fire/racism one) and I must have missed the very end before - it wasn't that it ws 'happy' - its that it was rubbish and unbelievable! The boss woman should just have let him take curry off the menu....
Mondays was cracking tho, right down to the end.
Tho it does strike me that the timescales of the programme are a bit odd. The passage of time from the earliest events in this series (not including the flashbacks) must have happened years before the ltest ones, yet each week they appear to be pretty much concurrent. Not that that matters much, but...
I think anyone who didn't like the earlier half happy endings must have been pleased with last night's one. My good grief, talk about tragic. It was very moving. All credit to Timothy Spall.
The next series might well start with his character not being able to live with the guilt and topping himself. Won't that be jolly.
As for Timothy Spall's performance, I laughed my socks off when he was fantasising about murdering his wife and stuffing her body in the boot of the car; he had his "Wormtail from Harry Potter" face on.
Baftas a go go for The Street.
The next series might well start with his character not being able to live with the guilt and topping himself. Won't that be jolly.
As for Timothy Spall's performance, I laughed my socks off when he was fantasising about murdering his wife and stuffing her body in the boot of the car; he had his "Wormtail from Harry Potter" face on.
Baftas a go go for The Street.
Is it the last one? Bloody hell.
