Post by Mitch on Sept 30, 2005 9:21:57 GMT
Tell you what, there's some not half bad TV dramas around at the moment.
Bodies, currently on BBC2 on Saturday nights at around 9pm is a brilliant critique of current New Labour grusome policy in the NHS, and it's real effects on pressure to front line staff, and the dire results there policies are having on patient care - it's hard hitting superb drama (pretty hard to watch with grusome operations - but this isn't romanticised like daft Casualty and that stupid US hospital drama where they start s h a g g i n g during operations - in Bodies it's all gritty realism - linking dire bureaucratic policy to horrific effect on patient care. Really recommend it.
Also, caught that Elizabeth I on channel 4. Had a d a m n good cast, with Helen Mirren & Jeremy Irons. I usually can't stand dramas about the monarchy, past and present - as they usually sentimental drivel giving reverence to the blasted Crown (DOWN WITH THE CROWN).
But this one isn't like that - it doesn't pull any punches on the grusomeness of this Elizabethan period (vomit during the hung/drawn and quartered scene, like Bodies - gritty realism, not gratuitous). The focus seemed to be on the corruptness of the court, a ridicule of monastic traditions, and a hard hitting look at power hungry states acting like pirates in this period under the clock of Catholic versus Protestant.
Thumbs up from me, this drama. Two fingers up to that t w a t historian David Starky as well, with his kiss arse monarchy documentaries!
I don't think it's an accident that gritty hard hitting realist drama is returning to TV now, if fits with our times. TV is looking up at last!
I've noticed too the Zombie films are coming back into cinema - humans feeding on each other - eek, apt!
tarara Mitch x
Bodies, currently on BBC2 on Saturday nights at around 9pm is a brilliant critique of current New Labour grusome policy in the NHS, and it's real effects on pressure to front line staff, and the dire results there policies are having on patient care - it's hard hitting superb drama (pretty hard to watch with grusome operations - but this isn't romanticised like daft Casualty and that stupid US hospital drama where they start s h a g g i n g during operations - in Bodies it's all gritty realism - linking dire bureaucratic policy to horrific effect on patient care. Really recommend it.
Also, caught that Elizabeth I on channel 4. Had a d a m n good cast, with Helen Mirren & Jeremy Irons. I usually can't stand dramas about the monarchy, past and present - as they usually sentimental drivel giving reverence to the blasted Crown (DOWN WITH THE CROWN).
But this one isn't like that - it doesn't pull any punches on the grusomeness of this Elizabethan period (vomit during the hung/drawn and quartered scene, like Bodies - gritty realism, not gratuitous). The focus seemed to be on the corruptness of the court, a ridicule of monastic traditions, and a hard hitting look at power hungry states acting like pirates in this period under the clock of Catholic versus Protestant.
Thumbs up from me, this drama. Two fingers up to that t w a t historian David Starky as well, with his kiss arse monarchy documentaries!
I don't think it's an accident that gritty hard hitting realist drama is returning to TV now, if fits with our times. TV is looking up at last!
I've noticed too the Zombie films are coming back into cinema - humans feeding on each other - eek, apt!
tarara Mitch x
