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'South London Horror Story', basically (lots of spoilers!)


Haha. I rather liked this drama: the escalation from "sombre reflection on modern urban loneliness" to "Is ANYONE normal in this building?" "full-on gore" was relentless and mathematic. I knew the ending was going to get really nasty when Basgallop upped the ante of political un-correctness with the really awful lines Stephen Mackintosh hisses at his teenage son - ("I'm ashamed to introduce you as my son, I'm afraid you are ruining my image, if you weren't my son I wouldn't speak to a loser like you" -- I'm quoting by memory but you get the gist. Mackintosh must be the guy to call for awkward scenes with cruel dialogue, he was horriby belittled by his wife in "Inside Men" and gave and received all sorts of insults in Luther....

If you don't take it seriously and accept some clichés (Indira Varna playing the butch bitch way too obviously, while Russell Tovey was absolutely credible as a dumb macho thug, showing her what good acting looks like), and once you get used to David Threlfall's eyeliner that made him look like a lost guitarist for The Cure, the whole thing was rather entertaining.

By the way: she wasn't forgotten because she was fat and ugly. She was deliberately forgotten there because all of the inhabitants of the house had had something unpleasant to do with her, so they thought "oh good riddance" when they didn't see her again - embarrassment removed .

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