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Fails

posted 9 years ago by chrisseeu
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I read a couple of " loved the book can't wait for the television version", statements, on here I think. I will bet you those folk who enjoyed the book will feel let down by this. I do not know the book. But as so often a book turned into TV or film never seems to do the written word justice. This fails to capture the one thing it had to do. We had to feel Lewis's pain, his torment the living hell he is struggling to live with. Too many times a silent open mouthed gorp was all we were given. Running away when he needed to shout and scream. I do not know the actor George Mackay so I will leave him
alone. A shame this two parter
failed to deliver.
It was average.

[–] mackay254 9 years ago

We had to feel Lewis's pain, his torment the living hell he is struggling to live with.

It's not often that I tear up, but I felt exactly that. I thought it was superb!

[–] annlevtex 9 years ago

Me too. I think I had a lump in my throat for almost half the episode. It was really emotionally draining to watch....so intense and sad. But I loved the ending.

I think the whole cast did a wonderful job. The second episode was stronger than the first, because you had really gotten to know the characters. They were all sympathetic except Carmichael and his wife. Oh, and the old bat who slapped Lewis the minute he walked up to the church. Cow.

Question....does anyone think the father might have been sexually abusing Tamsin in some way? Something about their dynamic felt weird.

[–] Reva_C 9 years ago

You're not the only one who thought that...I also thought there was a weird dynamic between Carmichael and Tamsin. I wasn't sure if it was intended or if it was actually the actors.

~ I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. ~

[–] annlevtex 9 years ago

It was ambiguous. But note how he doted on her....the pretty, more "ladylike" oldest. And how her survival technique was to please him and use her wiles. Also, she told Kit that the "one time" he hit her it happened to show on her face. So the only time he hit her was when she let this boy kiss her and unbutton her shirt? He seemed sexually possessive of her.

[–] stillbeautiful2003 7 years ago

After Xmas scene I thought the same thing so came to see if others did too.

[–] michelebruce26-1 9 years ago

Well said mackay254, I felt his pain, I didn't tear up, but I certainly felt for the poor guy, and for the girls and the stepmother. The others, apart from the lad's mum who drowned, I couldn't give a damn for them.

[–] Good-Will 9 years ago

I didn't tear up because I'm a manly man from England, but that was one of the best dramas I've seen this year.

If the opposite of Love is indifference, what's the opposite of Hate?

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