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Old 10-11-2016, 11:22
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New 7 part period drama from Stephen Poliakoff set at the end of WW II. Starring Jim Sturgess, Angela Bassett, Lindsay Duncan, Alfred Molina and others. Let's hope it's not as pretentious as his other dramas.
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Old 10-11-2016, 13:40
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New 7 part period drama from Stephen Poliakoff set at the end of WW II. Starring Jim Sturgess, Angela Bassett, Lindsay Duncan, Alfred Molina and others. Let's hope it's not as pretentious as his other dramas.
No chance of that as "pretentious" is his middle name
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Old 10-11-2016, 21:05
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It looks great. Jim Sturgess accent sounds weird.
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Old 10-11-2016, 21:11
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It looks great. Jim Sturgess accent sounds weird.
It's more than weird it's totally ridiculous. Robert Glenister better not be wasted in two-minute cameos.
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Old 10-11-2016, 21:33
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It looks great. Jim Sturgess accent sounds weird.
It's a sort of mash-up of Cary Grant and James Mason.
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Old 10-11-2016, 21:39
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Sounds like a combination of Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor.
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Old 10-11-2016, 21:54
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Sounds like a combination of Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor.
Heheh nailed it
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Old 10-11-2016, 21:57
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This just seems to be a colour by numbers series of wartime stereotypes. Let's have some kids on bomb sites, a rundown hotel with wandering melancholic hookers, some black marketeers, some jive music and a sassy American "broad". Unless Arthur Lowe and the boys crop up, I'm gonna lose interest.
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Old 10-11-2016, 22:03
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It's a sort of mash-up of Cary Grant and James Mason.
The Guardian said he sounds like Roger Moore.
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Old 10-11-2016, 22:53
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Enjoyed that. Just my thing.
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Old 10-11-2016, 23:00
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The Guardian said he sounds like Roger Moore.
More like Dudley Moore.
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Old 10-11-2016, 23:14
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Were there really still blackshirts around in 1946?

I hope the little girl is about to be abducted by "Mr Emmanuel" and not seen again, as I'm sick of her already. And I wonder how easy it was to buy nice new dresses in the shops in 1946. I thought the guy would more likely ask his relatives for some cast-offs for her.
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Old 10-11-2016, 23:43
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Were there really still blackshirts around in 1946?

I hope the little girl is about to be abducted by "Mr Emmanuel" and not seen again, as I'm sick of her already. And I wonder how easy it was to buy nice new dresses in the shops in 1946. I thought the guy would more likely ask his relatives for some cast-offs for her.
I wondered this too. Mosley and the majority of his henchmen were interned during the war and it seems unlikely they would be tolerated just after having fought a five year war against Facism.
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Old 11-11-2016, 01:27
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Love Poliakoff. Enjoyed this a lot.
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Old 11-11-2016, 07:11
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The 'jet engine design' plot line was a bit weak, the UK was arguably the world leader in the technology at the time. 'Rocket engine' would be better, with the added edge that German rocket engineers were working with forced labour, which would make the War Crimes woman's interest in the engineer more significant.
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Old 11-11-2016, 10:10
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Love Poliakoff. Enjoyed this a lot.
Me too. Thought it moved at a nice pace and the sets were gorgeous. Will definitely be tuning in again next week.
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Old 11-11-2016, 12:27
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As usual with Poliakoff an exercise in style over substance. Emperors New Clothes.
If the Beeb are looking to make budget cuts then Poliakoff is a good place to start.
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Old 11-11-2016, 12:54
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More beautiful than anything else on at the moment, slower and more thoughtful. Axe the budgets for everything else and keep this.
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Old 11-11-2016, 13:34
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So far so very good!
Anyone have an idea where the 'hotel' is filmed? Beautiful rooms.
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Old 11-11-2016, 13:52
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Excellent, as with all Poliakoff, although I have often heard him criticised for being 'too intellectual' and insufficiently 'accessible'.
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Old 11-11-2016, 14:02
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Were there really still blackshirts around in 1946?
Yes there were:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britis..._Ex-Servicemen
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Old 11-11-2016, 14:18
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Anyone have an idea where the 'hotel' is filmed? Beautiful rooms.
It was filmed in Liverpool, an old empty bank was converted into a hotel set, so not a real hotel as such.
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Old 12-11-2016, 13:32
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I love it so far.
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Old 12-11-2016, 13:47
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It's fairly familiar territory for Poliakoff and watchable enough but it's clumsily directed (by him) and Jim Sturgess is woeful in the central role, playing it like a caricature which undermines all the rest of the piece. I'll keep watching to the end because SP is undoubtedly a true artist and I've loved nearly everything else he's done (although I wouldn't care if every copy of Friends and Crocodiles and The Tribe were destroyed by fire) but I'm underwhelmed and after the week we've all had I was hoping this would be a resounding pick-me-up which it wasn't.
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Old 12-11-2016, 18:38
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Not sure what I'm looking at but I'll keep working away. It's not exactly The Missing, is it ....
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