Now I’m watching series two episode 2 and it is getting worse – I hate it – the family is severely disfunctional and the policeman her – Mike? – is really screwed, he’s even a villain perhaps, things he does.
It chafes at you, it irritates you, never a sensible conversation because always talking at cross purposes or one party won’t listen… especially between dad and Sadie… Dad won’t listen to anyone or anything… and he’s totally wrong… and the ‘forensic psychiatrist’ he’s having it on with and has got Sadie going to is truly a murderous villain..
Yep, drama to the melodramatic stage… but not yet far enough to be farcical and give me the relief of laughing at it… it still gets me screwed up and irritated…
Good movie making, that, eh?
But it is too real, the acting is too good, totally believable.. this director and perhaps these actors know all about family drama and the realities of humdrum life in a way that few in the movie making world apparently do.
It’s horrible… no wonder the series died… it is too good, too true.
How would we take it if we were exposed to a really true depiction of life in a war shattered Iraqi home, or something similar?
Too gritty, too dirty, too cruel, too unrelieving awful, too hopeless, too provocative, too ‘in your face’… we couldn’t/wouldn’t take it and that’s why no one tries to produce such a film, I guess.
Well this is the same. I think. Something like that.
But, horrible as it is it is nowhere near as horrible as reality.
A reality we all love to hide ourselves away from.
I strongly recommend Taki’s article on Gaddafi and Libya in ‘The Spectator’ for 26 February 2011.
He tells it as he sees it and he tells it as it is. We should be cringing in shame. ‘We’ ? The Western World ? Yes. The Western World, America, UK, Australia etc… all of us.
But in particular Australia. In particular.
Read Taki and judge for yourself.