first episode great spoilers

I lost interest after half an hour. I consider myself an aficionado of 60s London, because uncle Tom lived there and we used to visit during Wimbledon. I even managed to lose my sister in Barking once, although the fooking police stopped torturing suspects long enough to bring her back, the corrupt bastards.

Casting a bit catch-penny and characters predictable, COMbbc-philistinism-for-the-use-of. Despite the obscene manoeuve of nailing an advert on the end to spoil the next episode, I'll try again in honour of Foyle.

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

Random access killed vinyl. And cassette. And VCR.

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Huzzah! A Daily Mail reference! About goddamn time I say!

Arguably, the Beeb’s main problem with much of its televisual output these days is how tiresomely predictable it’s drama serials are, in no small due to an unhealthy combination of declining standards in scriptwriting and creatively stifling left wing politics.

Indeed, the formerly peerless corporation seems to veer dangerously close at times to producing drama programmes, purported to have mass appeal, yet in reality simply appear to serve the interests of The Guardian’s dwindling readership and not much else. Crucially, viewers are more cynical on average now than they’ve ever been and are unlikely to take kindly to the sort of politically on-song, ‘edutainment’ cobblers that ‘White Heat’ is shaping up to be.

Incidentally, it’s also no coincidence that viewers are currently switching off in droves from Upstairs Downstairs, which similarly suffers from the same sort of issues that White Heat appears to be afflicted with. Specifically the characters in both shows (admittedly it’s still early days for White Heat) appear to blatant anachronisms of the periods that they exist in and are consequently unconvincing to say the least. That’s either bad writing or deliberate…. or more likely a bit of both I’d imagine.

Perhaps the true issue here is that many modern white, middle class writers seem obsessed with racial, sexual and/or minority issues to an almost debilitating degree and feel the perpetual need to weave such issues into their work incessantly. Indeed, it’s almost like a rite of passage for your budding script writer to piously lecture viewers about homophobia and ‘w’acism, for the umpteenth bloody time! Change the record ffs.

Like I say: “predictable”.