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Like a chronic drunk stumbling through the streets after kicking-out time, Miracle Day has tripped over its own feet and staggered under its own weight so many times that its final collapse into a heap seemed inevitable.
Forty-five years after its original transmission as part of The Wednesday Play series, the BBC have re-released one of director Ken Loach’s most feted early works on DVD.
If the opening instalment of this likeable adaptation of Denise Mina’s novel overdid the ‘80s retro and the Raintown-esque Glaswegian backdrops, the concluding part matches the wistful nostalgia with dark good humour and a seedy, side-street splendour.
Written by that practised purveyor of petrifaction, Mark Gatiss, ‘Night Terrors’ sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory summoned across the stars by an eight year old boy named George (Jamie Oram), who is terrified of… well, just about everything.
In the concluding part of the drama adapted from Denise Mina’s novel, Paddy Meehan delves deeper into the past to try and find a connection between the deaths of Brian Wilcox and Thomas Dempsey.
‘So… why the hell…? Bollocks. Start again,’ Gwen stutters at the beginning of ‘End of the Road’, and oh, how we wish that we could.
We were worried. We were scared that Steven Moffat had finally overreached himself and that ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ might be as disappointing as the conclusion of the otherwise majestic ‘A Good Man Goes to War’. We were wrong. Picking up a few hazy summer months after that strangely numbing mid-series finale, a bombardment of instantly … >
Written and directed by David Kane from the novel by Denise Mina, The Field of Blood is a thriller so smothered in nicotinic, 1980s nostalgia it could almost be called ‘Fag-ashes to Fag-ashes’.
The dilemma of whether to serve the interests of one’s country, one’s loved ones or one’s superiors lies at the heart of David Hare’s one-off spy thriller.
‘It gets better,’ Jack Harkness remarks, perhaps having viewed the rushes of Episode 7, ‘then it gets worse again.’ If any story is a microcosm of the season as a whole, it’s this one.