My 2p… it’s typical BBC drama, sadly. Promises much and costs more

Hard Sun is worse, worse even than the Night Manager

The first episode was good, so watched the second, and third. Now I’m invested, even if they are getting worse. I feel like if I don’t finish them, its time spent in vain. I at least need to know what happens! It had better have a conclusion..

I feel like if I don’t finish them, its time spent in vain.

i went on holiday for a week.  have no desire to see any more – i don’t care what happens to any of them

Was reminded that there are two seasons of League of Gentlemen and Inside No 9 on Netflix so rewatching all of those at the moment.  Qualityl

Hard Sun is worse, worse even than the Night Manager

Its absolutely awful! Laughably bad! We never even made it through the first episode! Its like someone at the BBC had seen Utopia and said “I know! Lets do a really, really crap, ridiculously dumbed down version of that!!!”

I read the book when it first came out – its very good actually.  It’s non-fiction, about the rise of the new world order of organised crime.

This is kind-of a dramatisation of the book – how the money moves around, the Russian kleptocracy  etc.

Certainly worth a read

^ couldn’t agree more re: hard sun.  McMafia, although not great, is certainly better than that.

Although Silent Witness is still the benchmark for absolute claptrap

Silent Witness is still the benchmark for absolute claptrap

Have you never watched game shows or blind date ?????  There is far worse than Silent Witness believe me

They made Hard Sun look worth watching with the previews! Glad I wasn’t the only one who fell for it.

Have you never watched game shows or blind date ?????  There is far worse than Silent Witness believe me

Pretty sure he meant in the drama genre. I mean you could sink pretty low if you include all categories of TV programme. Bottom of the heap: Naked Attraction. 😆

No, but game shows/blind date aren’t masquerading as anything besides light entertainment.

Silent witness pretends to be a serious, high-quality police procedural – in reality, its a pound-shop CSI, written by people who have never read any crime fiction, other than to blatantly plagiarise it.  There was one last season (maybe before) that was just “strangers on a train”, and I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been trying to figure out who dun it, only to have a new character introduced in the last 20 mins…. turns-out, it was them.  Utter garbage.

Is blind date still running?

Edit:  Hey Duggee is the highlight of the BBC programming at the moment

Is it the Silent Witness episode next week where they all bugger off abroad, abandoning any forensic service in London to go and meddle in foreign police investigations?

I hope they all get thrown in a skanky jail with no hope of parole this season.

Is blind date still running?

Channel 5, with Lily Savage instead of Cilla. Still awesome.*

*not watched it

As soon as I thought Semiyon Kleiman (David Strathnairn) sounded like Sergei the Meerkat I was out!

<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 16px;”>Edit:  Hey Duggee is the highlight of the BBC programming at the moment</span>

True…

https://youtu.be/6Xz2QpOFjio

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I thought  he was Eddie Jordan.

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I thought  he was Eddie Jordan.

<span style=”color: #444444;”>Not sure why we need to follow the trafficked girl</span>

That’s all I was following, TBH

Not sure why we need to follow the trafficked girl

Because it added in another 3 locations to go on holiday to for the BBC film crew 🙂

Bit of an odd ending. Setup nicely for series 2 though.

The last 2 were really good. Very tense. The lead actor though, can’t even remember his name, he’s so non! When he was running for his life – I bet the director untucked his shirt after the first take because otherwise he would’ve just looked like he was jogging for a bus. So expressionless. Definitely can wait for the next series.

yeah, I would have liked to have seen Alex have a bit of a rumble with Vadim – bit of a wrestle on the carpet then brain him with an iron bar. Then Alex gets on a fishing boat and sails off to Ankara to open a Turkish Bath / casino / crypto-currency laundering shop.

Thankful for no stupid ending though (despite having stupid ending written all over it), just an ascendancy to top-dog in his ‘new economic world’, walking over his Mexican mate in the process and heeding Vadim’s call that he needs to isolate himself.

walking over his Mexican mate

Was he ever his mate?