had trouble understanding what the hell was going on
Felt like I was the one who was under the influence trying to watch this.
shareFelt like I was the one who was under the influence trying to watch this.
shareWell - that was dull, apart from some good moments from new-sober Demoys and also the nurse Donna who had some interesting lines.
Why was Sylvie ever obssesed with the uber-drunk version of Demoys?
Why did her husband believe a police badge would deflect oncoming cars?
Why did Ruth start fancying Demoys just because he looked vaguely concerned?
Several irrelevant coincidences chucked in, in an attempt add thickness to the plot: Demoy's sister dating Durrans, Demoy's having an affair with the detective's wife.
And the co-operative, signed off by the mayor minutes before he hands himself in for murder... right, no-one's going to appeal that decision then!
Not a patch on The Shadow Line
The coincidences you mention were what made me chuck it in. It felt like too much of a stretch to me for this person who already has a melodramatic enough life going on (being a megadrunk involved in corruption and possibly having murdered someone who has somehow maintained his career and family and an affair while being too much of a drunk to stay conscious) to then become the public hero saving a witness in a completely different case from assassination on the courthouse steps. I know I don't have the right to judge the story as a whole from the portion I watched, but it didn't seem like it was headed in the right direction.
Loved "The Shadow Line."
Typical contemporary British drama. Tricksy camerawork. Characters we are apparently supposed to give a damn about. Am I really going to be forced to return to literature? Please don't tell me it's come to this.
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Had promise but yes it all got a bit far-fetched, and then started to sink beneath the moralising about alcoholism and corporate corruption. Just tell me the bloody story, I can work out for myself what I think the moral is.
Christopher Eccleston was good as always but in the end I was glad it was only a three-parter, I don't think I could have lasted had it been six or eight weeks.
And it left a lot of loose ends. The increasing necessity to leave things dangling just in case the show gets recommissioned for another series is annoying.
At least it wasn't as totally bollocks as that Philip Glenister one last year.
Enjoyable for the first half, but then drowned in its own preachiness.
Just a painted face on a trip down suicide row
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