Bouquet of Barbed Wire ITV 1

He reminded me of the character he played in Lewis. He was a brilliant painter with a photograhic memory and I believe he suffered from Autism, his acting was very smiliar "disjointed and odd" as you say but it suited the character.
 
:I am a wincy bit in love with Trevor Eve. I had a kinky dream about him once :o

I havent seen the original, so i had nothing to compare this show to. I enjoyed it, but reading the write-ups before hand i thought the Dad and Daughter would have a sexual relationship - but obviously not :confused:

I am very interested to see where this show is leading, so i will definately be tuning in next week.
 
Very rarely does a remake of anything match up to the origional ! and i admire the producers in trying to update the story ! but as you say they are a bit prudish towards sex! and proggrammes in the 9pm to 10pm slot they seem to be a bit overcautious these days with all this PC about !
 
I watched this on ITV player last night. I have never read the book, nor watched the original series and know nothing of the story. So with that taken into account and viewed as just another ITV drama, the story is interesting and the actors are doing a good job, apart from maybe the actress who plays the daughter . To much pouting to the camera for my liking.

It's ok, easy to watch, and will most probably tune in next week. However, it's not unmissable. So i'm probably saying it's just another average ITV drama.
 
dissapointing:cry: i stuck with it till the end, but it wasn't a patch on the original, why it was called Bouquet of Barbed Wire I don't know the only simalarity was they had the same names, the characters were totally different to the original plot, the book has been rereleased if you haven't seen the original series and read the book you will see how totally different this series has been, it does say the new series has been adapted from the book, only in the flimsiest sort of way, would have been better to call it some thing else.
 
Ha ha ha, that's the same reason I watch it.
If you've ever seen her in Hex, she steals every scene in the series. Not to mention upstage not one main protagonist, but two of them. (IMO.)
 
It would be pointless asking us!
This series is NOT BBOW, it has absolutely and utterly diverged from the original plot which had no grandma, no Paula, no stabbing. The original plot concerned ONLY the four main characters manipulating and destroying each other, there was no unlikely overblown detective plot involving nursing homes, burnt-off tattoos and stalking. So we have no idea what is supposed to be going in this series on either.

It annoys me they have traded on the name and reputation of the original, only to produce a completely different beast. Why not just make a new drama.
 
But there is definitely evidence that the father has improper physical thoughts about the daughter eg. he was leering at her bending down to bowl.
 
Well, being from beyond Watford Gap originally, I think I may be guilty of saying rowmants :o, but I also say bookay, which I think is more or less the correct pronunciation, but forgive me if I'm wrong. (The last bit for HALibutt :)
 
The origional was really shocking for its day ! this version they seem to have gone on the cautious side ...and i expected it to be really controversial!...perhaps they should have put it on Channel 4 :eek: !
 
If I had it my way this would have been 75 minutes and The Road To Corrie would have been spread over three hour long episodes. Shame we don't get what we want!
 
I felt quite sorry for her with her face all bashed up - did someone on here say she's supposed to actually enjoy that? Can't get my head around that!
 
Well, I liked it, and it made me feel dead clever.I didn't figure out the horses, but there's a very strong Agamemnon thing going on - he had two daughters and sacrificed one. It wasn't a direct parallel with the legend, but there Gavin's reference to the Furies, and Agamemnon's lover was called Cassandra.
The actor playing Gavin should have stuck with being a sneering sociopath though. His crying was just embarrassing.
 
Yes, aja. great series that. It used to be on Monday nights, in my last two years at school. [1970 and '71] Kenneth Haigh was by far the better actor to play Lampton than Lawrence Harvey[I think it was] in the film Room at the Top from which it derived.
 
There was no connection between Gavin and Pru's family in the original. The original was purely about relationships - Peter's obsession with Pru and his neglect of Cassie - Pru's manipulation of her father and Gavin. I can't remember the ins and outs of each episode, biiut I do remember being riveted. I'd like to see the original again and see if it holds up after all this time.
 
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