‘Eternal Law’: Episode 4 review
At just past the halfway mark in this six-part series, the stakes were due to be raised in the angels’ mission to bring good to the earth.
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At just past the halfway mark in this six-part series, the stakes were due to be raised in the angels’ mission to bring good to the earth.
Created and written by Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes), ITV1’s Eternal Law continues this week.
So far this is a wonderful take on a novel that has proved notoriously hard to adapt to the screen since its publication in 1993.
With Eternal Law’s third episode, the script writers playfully tackle such earthy subjects as angelic sex drive and sexual performance.
Eternal Law remains a well-acted, enjoyable show, even if the idea of angels coming to earth and working as lawyers hasn’t yet been explored as intricately as it could be.
Yesterday we went along to the BAFTA screening of BBC One’s upcoming First World War epic to see what she and director Philip Martin have made of Faulks’ elusive narrative.
Created and written by Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes), ITV1’s Eternal Law continues next week.
ITV1’s Eternal Law is a new legal drama with a twist – its two lawyer protagonists are no mere law-school graduates but angels sent to earth to help humanity.
Yesterday we went along to the British Library for the launch of Great Expectations, screenwriter Sarah Phelps’s (Oliver Twist, EastEnders) three-part take on Dickens’ classic novel about a boy with big dreams who learns that moral worth matters more than social status.
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