Fantastic!


Just saw 'The Outcast' which was wonderful, a great story and with a cast of high class, super talented actors. And George MacKay was fantastic as a very troubled young man. He has a great future ahead on stage, TV and film and he has done quite a huge amount already. As Lewis he was, by turns, spectacularly honest in portrayal of shock and traumatised by horrific experience and later earnest in search of redemption.

The role (and George) reminded me of Boy A, another great British favourite of mine. You could say I like raw drama, perhaps because it all too frequently mirrors real life. And I think the truth is that happy, always blissful lives are deathly dull and create dreary people without 'edge', not always of course, but quite often!

So 7.5 out of 10? Perhaps Sadie Jones's fine work has themes too painful for most to contemplate, personally I thought it was amazing and ultimately magnificent and concluded with hope, that most reassuring of possibilities.

Well done everyone concerned- if the tories ruin the BBC and the NHS as they seem to want to do, they will ruin Britain forever.

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The score has gone up since last week, when it started at under 7. Personally I gave it an 8 last week but I would give it a 9.5 for this week. I think some felt it got off to a slow start. And some just found it too gloomy so it wasn't the show for them....they scored it last week and then stopped watching.

I've seen a LOT more positive response overall this week. A lot of viewers took to social media etc. to praise it. And a few reviewers raved about it.

I thought it was truly exceptional and moving. I am a fan of Jessica Brown-Findlay (Alice) and this to me is the strongest performance of her career (granted I haven't seen everything she's done) . Hadn't seen MacKay before but he was tremendous. I've seen Jessica Barden once before....she's terrific.

And the last time I saw Greg Wise was in Sense & Sensibility. He's amazing! Why don't we see more of him!?

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