This was such a let down. Excellent in some places, downright awful in others. Had so much potential and a great cast for the most part, just feels wasted
"Added to this were the huge chunks that viewers had to fill in themselves. While some drama series challenge the viewer by offering clues and letting the audience fill in a few gaps, Southcliffe takes things too far. It is incomprehensible. The audience was essentially given a series of loosely connected vignettes and told to figure it out from that."
"Southcliffe’s power has been its unique insistence on bringing into our living rooms a harrowing sense of the grief, numbness and trauma of mindless murder, shoving it in our faces and refusing to let us look away. "
"Added to this were the huge chunks that viewers had to fill in themselves. While some drama series challenge the viewer by offering clues and letting the audience fill in a few gaps, Southcliffe takes things too far. It is incomprehensible. The audience was essentially given a series of loosely connected vignettes and told to figure it out from that."
"Southcliffe’s power has been its unique insistence on bringing into our living rooms a harrowing sense of the grief, numbness and trauma of mindless murder, shoving it in our faces and refusing to let us look away. "
Wow. Watched the last eps in the b/g, which doesn't aid understanding, I accept, but even so... The makers assumed the seriousness of the story would command our attention, but it didn't because of the awful execution. Did we find out why the young soldier was going to kill himself? Perhaps because he was stupid enough to believe you can fire a real gun with 'rubber bullets', whatever they are. And what was the nonsense with Maurice Roeves's conspiracy theorist who thought he could tell the make of pistol from its shot (good luck with that). Did the thug who humiliated Steven get his comeuppance?
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I think we're going to be none the wiser and that's 5 hours I'm never going to be get back. Was it 5 ? I so don't care I don't even know.:yawn:
Dunno, I'm still holding out for the Bernard Cribbins summary, or some nice person to type it up on Wikipedia.
:eek: I was right! A musical ending.
I need support from the charity that deals with disappointment and confusion.
It was 4
My feeliings exactly. First two episodes made me excited. Second two episodes absolutely awful.
I didn't follow any of it.
Well I know some people got shot.
That's about it really.
I was only a bit excited by the first episode, but stuck with it. :yawn: Wish I hadn't.
I do get that but I expect a degree of enterntainment. I was just bored.
Independent http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/08/18/southcliffe-%E2%80%93-all-souls-series-1-episode-4/
"Added to this were the huge chunks that viewers had to fill in themselves. While some drama series challenge the viewer by offering clues and letting the audience fill in a few gaps, Southcliffe takes things too far. It is incomprehensible. The audience was essentially given a series of loosely connected vignettes and told to figure it out from that."
Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10248871/Southcliffe-Channel-4-review.html
"Southcliffe’s power has been its unique insistence on bringing into our living rooms a harrowing sense of the grief, numbness and trauma of mindless murder, shoving it in our faces and refusing to let us look away. "
Thanks for those
Terrible.