BBC One’s Bloodlands is Line of Duty with added politics
This new series produced by Jed Mercurio is exciting, and its plot is intricately tangled.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
This new series produced by Jed Mercurio is exciting, and its plot is intricately tangled.
BySerious, high-minded and brilliant – this is a stunning lesson in not patronising audiences.
ByAlan Yentob’s film was predictably starry: he favours big guns, mostly male, at whose wisdom he can nod, thus looking…
ByEven Alan Carr’s pleasing sarcasm can’t save it.
ByThis comedy series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb also has deep feeling for its boozer’s denizens.
ByThe French series puts glamorous actors such as Charlotte Gainsbourg and Isabelle Huppert into farcical situations – while showing huge affection for the business.
ByHowever sad and serious this series is, and however political, Davies has his eye on youth and love, too.
ByIt’s silly, with moments of human goodness – and exactly what I need right now.
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