• Law & Order: UK signed off with another strong, twisting episode on Thursday. How often do you see a drama in which the heroes cock it up and an innocent victim is murdered as a result? A nurse insisted she was the victim of a mystery stalker who threw her down a flight of stairs. Brooks and Devlin thought she was making it up to get the police to take her fears more seriously. When she was then quickly murdered, and Brooks and Devlin ended up giving conflicting evidence in court, it gave viewers a powerful story of shifting moral standpoints. It's been a cracking series, and happily ITV has already commissioned another 13 episodes. Of course, it is a tried and tested formula and ITV are just reheating stories from the US original series, but the cast - Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet Walter, Ben Daniels and Freema Agyeman – are all good, and the stories are absorbing and pacy.
• Just finished
Stuart Neville's The Twelve – for once, the hype was bang on. ITV or the Beeb should drop their obsession with twee period favourites like
Poirot and
George Gently. This pulverising novel about a former Belfast hitman seeking to placate and avenge the ghosts of the 12 people he murdered is a genre-busting powerhouse of a book, but with moments of tenderness. If made well,
The Twelve would be a headbutt in the face of UK television's cosy crime scene.
• What the hell is Lucas (right) up to in Spooks? It goes without saying that he isn't the man we thought he was – people rarely are in Section D. But series nine is heading for some showdown between Lucas and his boss, Harry. And knowing what a high casualty rate the show has (Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Rupert Penry-Jones and Hermione Norris, among others, all having been fired or murdered), will it be the end of the line for Richard Armitage (Lucas) or Peter Firth (Harry)? 'Shocking consequences' are being promised by the Beeb…
I want to comment on episode #161 showing in the US at PBS.
ReplyDeleteA Czech banker backed up by the Russian mafia is not only taking down a failing UK bank, but his wish is to jump start the collapse of capitalism itself.
Rose has infiltrated this financial tycoon's inner circle and listens to his explanation as to why he despises the bankers who are at the service of the world's oligarchs and have no heart for the masses of people. He explains he appears as "one of them" but inside is waiting to find the right moment to take all the Capitalist corrupt, selfish system down and this is the moment.
BBC seems more than once to be in the business of "vaccinating" the audience using true valid arguments for the "bad" characters in some of episodes, but twisting and spinning it in order to always find a way to present the Status Quo as t5he "good" guys, even if the "bad" characters are actually proposing something valid.
For BBC to do this especially on the wake of the scandalous behavior by the blood sucking financial sector, IS INADMISSIBLE!!
The truth is as described by the "bad" character who explained Capitalism will destroy itself, don't matter how much BBC spins it and attempts to brain wash its audience.
For anyone who understands how the fractional reserve system works, understands this current system of creating currency as debt is absolutely unsustainable, and it's the root of the bubbles and crashes orchestrated at will by the Money Masters, the international financial oligarchs who control the PRIVATE central banks in UK and the US and more.