Okay, I did and got 11:46 in before pausing and taking a WTF? trip to Wikipedia. It was so . . . conventional. It’s apparently Twin Peaks without the insanity or Sherilyn Fenn. Nobody watched Twin Peaks because it was a gritty drama about a town torn apart over a young person’s death because programs like that are dull.
And the casting is disappointing. Sure, Olivia Colman wants to stretch her wings and show she can do drama, but she’s funny, which is harder. Arthur Darvill, well, he needs a career and his character sounds interesting and I already know he has the range. But anybody can play an intense, dour Scotsman, and Tennant has shown he can do more. And I’ve listened to Double Income, No Kids Yet, so I know he can do boring and conventional, too. I mean, just what is it with British sitcoms that makes them so awful? But that’s a different thread.
So please tell me if this will be worth watching, and why it’s not just filler for an hour slot for six weeks.
Um, I operate under certain geographical limitations and never heard of her until a year ago. She hasn’t made a splash on US TV, and by the looks of that movie I would never see it in a million years, though the other day my head was turned by its poster so I researched it. I don’t do “people coming to terms with stuff” movies, books, or TV and radio shows,which should be obvious because I made it less than twelve minutes into Broadchurch, though I had been looking forward to it.
I haven’t seen it either, but it was quite prominent on my radar so I made the common and wrong assumption that everybody else had the same exposure to it that I did.
Goodness, you should have seen Olivia Coleman in Jimmy McGovern’s ‘Accused’ - unbelievable performance (performances, actually - stunning work by all involved):
As for Broadchurch, ITV drama innit - they may hit the bullseye once in a while but it’s more luck than judgement. Having said that, the BBC put something called ‘Mayday’ up against it and that’s struggling as well, though for very different reasons.
Seriously, if you want outstanding drama, hunt down S1 and S2 of Accused.
So you bollock on about Olivia Coleman, reading into her motivations and career plan, but when challenged you start pleading ignorance (Americanness). And you don’t do “coming to terms with stuff”.
Pointless.
And please do start a thread about how awful British sitcoms are.
I was planning to watch “Broadchurch” as a newly-converted David Tennant fan, but the recent BBC series “Spies of Warsaw” was slow-paced enough that I couldn’t even finish the last episode. Any comparisons with that?
I had saved getting into Doctor Who for a time of need, and the long Sherlock hiatus is it. So far I’m through series four, and once the specials DVD comes from the library, that’s the end of Tennant’s Who gig. I started with Eccleston as Nine, and loved him, so was surprised to like Tennant even more. Especially when I heard him in his native Scottish accent (my favorite accent of all).
Do you have any other recommendations for works with David Tennant?
Blackpool was pretty decent, I thought. It was shown as Viva Blackpool in the US. He also played the title role in Casanova, which was his first collaboration with Russell T Davies, and led to him getting the Doctor Who gig.
There was a one-off drama, ‘Recovery’ where he played a man removing from a brain injury. Very moving, as I remember. It was the first time I’d noticed him, pre-Who.
Kind of agreed. Tennant was definitely pretty good, the whole production was excellent: Readily available from your usual ‘unofficial’ internet resources, and presumably elsewhere. Fwiw, it was this production:
ITV player is pretty rubbish anyway, and I doubt they are going to invest much in it as all the UK broadcasters are supposed to be moving to a shared platform.
ITV player, eh? trying it That’s what I get for using my real postal code. trying it with my company’s code in Slough Not that, either. The crafty Brits have seen through my cunning plan.
And how are you supposed to pronounce “Slough?” “Slew?” “Sluff?” A Scottish “Slock?” A Welsh “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?”
“Slow?” I mean, “Slaw?” “ßlau?” I mean, Jesus, I can’t even spell it without going with a phonetic alphabet or German. English is a god-awful language. We should have gone with Iroquoian when we had the chance.