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What a pointless jumbled badly acted piece of crap this was, at least for the first 15 minutes before I switched of.
I could have been brilliant, a historic story that the BBC made so well in the past, well acted and informative.
Instead it was incoherent and filled with unnecessary effing and blinding, I'm no prude but there was much more than was needed.
The Yorkshire accents were a joke straight from Monty Python's Three Yorkshiremen sketch.
I see from comments elsewhere, non complementary, that the "author" lets
the "actors" choose their own words, this was evident in the
unintelligible 15 minutes I foolishly watched.
"Mike Swift" <mike.swift@yeton.co.uk> wrote in message news:f0cZiJAa0KekFw6n@ntlworld.com...
What a pointless jumbled badly acted piece of crap this was, at least for the first 15 minutes before I switched of.
I could have been brilliant, a historic story that the BBC made so well in the past, well acted and informative.
Instead it was incoherent and filled with unnecessary effing and blinding, I'm no prude but there was much more than was needed.
The Yorkshire accents were a joke straight from Monty Python's Three Yorkshiremen sketch.
I see from comments elsewhere, non complementary, that the "author" lets the "actors" choose their own words, this was evident in the unintelligible 15 minutes I foolishly watched.
I've not watched it yet, but I've seen the end-credits sequence as I was transcribing the cast for the entry on IMDB. And it looked like the creative result of a very bad acid trip. The reviews are mixed: the Independent loathed it https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-gallows-pole-review-shane-meadows-b2348985.html
but the Guardian loved it https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/31/the-gallows-pole-review-shane-meadowss-period-drama-is-an-absolute-must-see
I suppose I could have guessed that it was going to be an "arty" adaptation from the number of "Supporting Artist" cast who had no previous credits, especially children of the starring actors.
I was brought up on the Cragg Vale Coiners story from Phyllis Bentley's novel for children Gold Pieces in which a fictional weaver's son gets to know David Hartley's son and gets drawn into the coin-clipping conspiracy. It was a while before I learned that the coiners were real and not something that Bentley invented for her novel. The BBC would have done well to adapt that novel instead...
What a pointless jumbled badly acted piece of crap this was, at least
for the first 15 minutes before I switched of.
I could have been brilliant, a historic story that the BBC made so well
in the past, well acted and informative.
Instead it was incoherent and filled with unnecessary effing and
blinding, I'm no prude but there was much more than was needed.
The Yorkshire accents were a joke straight from Monty Python's Three Yorkshiremen sketch.
I see from comments elsewhere, non complementary, that the "author" lets
the "actors" choose their own words, this was evident in the
unintelligible 15 minutes I foolishly watched.
Very disappointed.
Mike