really good 80's mini series
what other 80's mini series do you like?
shareEdge of Darkness is superb. I am sure you would have seen it but I would say to anyone who likes Traffik that they would love Edge of Darkness.
shareYes, "Edge of Darkness" is a bench mark!
Also. Not necessarily from only the '80s,(some are earlier and later) but were of that genre now sadly destroyed forever as a British fixture on tv--by the need to write, film and direct (obviously due to the new international audiences they are selling DVDs to) for foreigners' streaming services and DVD sales instead of "preaching only to the choir" of the British society about its own foibles and features on only a British tv station.
Writers used to turn a mirror on the British viewer and explore things in depth. That doesn't play in Peoria now, so, we'll never get that kind of series again, sadly.
"When the Boat Comes In" post-war (Great War) story of northern struggles
"The Black Stuff" and the sequel...
"Boys from the Black Stuff." Brutal look at men struggling with unemployment in Liverpool
"Blackadder" (all of them!) Brilliant social satire!
"Brideshead Revisited"
"Never Never" with the early John Simm
"The Citadel"
"Out!" (an early and gritty tour de force with the great Tom Bell as an ex-con)
"Fortunes of War" a great Kenneth Branagh early effort, with his future wife Emmy Thompson
"The Sandbaggers" some say the greatest espionage series ever done. Can't disagree.
"A Perfect Spy" Le Carre's kind of" autobiographical series
"Jewel in the Crown Jewel in the Crown Jewel in the Crown!!!!" Ha. The definitive look at lost empire and the vicious dynamics of "class" as seen through the India ex-pat and Raj experience.
"Reilly Ace of Spies"
"Tenko" a definitive tv series of women in Japanese prison camps during the war
"Our Friends in the North." Stunning performances by some of the halcyon days of British actors. Daniel Craig's moving and unforgettable portrait of Geordie stays with you long after the credits roll.
If i had to choose only three and could not watch them all it would be:
"Jewel in the Crown" due to story of the fall of the Raj, the location filming, the searing class system exposed and the actors.
"The Sandbaggers." Unforgettable series. Written by a naval intelligence officer who disappeared mysteriously during the run of the series and he was never seen again. Roy Marsden created Neil Burnside, the magnificently cynical Mi6 boss.
"Our Friends in the North" and "Edge of Darkness" are tied for third. Cast, story, sweep of time and place. Penetrating social commentary. Both have it all.
So that's my two pence worth. There are far more but...