I am just re-watching the first series again. Assuming that the episodes follow each other directly, ie. we dont lose any days in between episodes which it appears we dont, they never seem to have a day off work? I have counted about 7 consecutive days going into work. In most cases they get drunk in the evening (especially Anna), wake up go to work, get drunk, go to work. Do they ever get a rest?
shareHi Vodka browny. I have a question for you which i hope you can help me with. There is a track i want to know the name of and the artist. It's in the first episode of the second series "last tango in southwark". Its the day after a party and egg is in the kitchen talking to warren about anna and miles i think(the track is playing in the back ground). Marty freeman (from the office) is in it and he sneaks into eggs room and steal about £30 and unknowing drinks piss from a beer can.
Do you know the name of this track, if not can you help at all?
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Good point. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any weekend-set scenes (apart from This Life + 10, of course). Maybe their working life was deemed inherently more interesting/dramatic than leisure hours - even though boundaries were blurred, to put it mildly - or maybe it was because the series tended to be transmitted on weekdays and it was perhaps deemed more congruous that the action would have a working, implicitly concurrent context, with a tacit message that 'this could have happened this week'.
shareI thought they were working all the time, even on weekends. I don't know if I'm wrong about this, but I clearly remember someone mentioning they had to get to the office and work, even on a saturday. I don't know the episode, and I could be wrong.
This is what lawyers do, especially those just starting out. I did some law post-grad and they did say if you train as a solicitor you can kiss goodbye to any free time; weekends, evenings, early morning. Because lawyers just starting out have so much competition, and they want to make partner at their firm, they just go along with it, so in all it was pretty realistic.
shareThis is what lawyers do, especially those just starting out. I did some law post-grad and they did say if you train as a solicitor you can kiss goodbye to any free time; weekends, evenings, early morning. Because lawyers just starting out have so much competition, and they want to make partner at their firm, they just go along with it, so in all it was pretty realistic.
shareI thought the same, then I just assumed that maybe their weekends were boring, watching TV or something, so the story only focused on weekdays. I don't think they would have gone to work even on Sundays. Even the hardest working lawyers get at least a day off in a week.
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