This is England 86 (Spoilers)

I forgot that this had been on, with other shows starting up again, this morning. So I've just watched the episode and found it really hard to take, that last 10 or so minutes was incredible for all the wrong reasons.

However, the one thing that broke up the darkness of it wall was the continuity error at the start when Mick offered Trev a beer. She opened the can with a "modern ring pull", not the old ring pulls that came off the can. Why I noticed that I can't recall, but they certainly weren't around in the 1980's.

However, I'm really looking forward to next weeks show now.
 
Terrific series all round and a TV highlight for me this year.

It was funny, emotional, hard to watch and gripping. Some scenes/sub-plots seemed a bit tacked on and didn't work but I cared about these characters and at the end wanted the story to continue - I hope it will.

I think most of us, after episode three kinda predicted what would happen in the end, but that doesn't devalue the series. Lol and Combo's scene was a tearjerker.

I hope the series will be recommissioned, and the odd award or two wouldn't go amiss either. :)

Right, I'm going to watch Sarah Beeny mend a house, using hammers the traditional way - I hope.
 
They've got to spread it out over the episodes, though, so it felt a bit slower but I enjoyed it just as much as the original film. Was looking forward to this and wasn't disappointed.

Loved the cinematography at the end though, with Lol standing alone, with the Fleetwood Mac song over the top. Beautiful.
 
Thought it was pretty good, but Shane Meadows could film paint drying and I'd probably watch it.

Does anyone know what that song was at the end?
 
Well, AA Gill is well known for being an utter ar$e so I, for one couldn't give a flying what he's got to say about anything on TV.
 
I'm glad they didn't shy away. Sadly it is a grim reality.

It still shook me though. I don't think a drama has affected me in that way for quite some time. :(
 
For some strange reason, my reactions to this series have been somewhat subdued, despite the rather sensationalist elements of it. Clearly 4 don't do subtlety any more. Maybe the almost unprecedented hype to this series inflated my expectations. I've found some of the acting - especially from that ugly woman with the oddly ponderous posh voice - pretty amateurish TBH. I accept that this offers a view of urban dysfunctionality, but it slightly irks me that 4 feel compelled to push the envelope almost habitually. Shameless, with it's more surreal edge to it, seems to be more palatable when depicting sex and violence, but This Is England just feels a bit salacious for its sake. There is also a missing ingredient somewhere down the line.
 
The last film he made, called Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee, was virtually 100 percent ad libbed. He picks his actors up from an actors workshop, and gives them the chance to be in his films, and lets them express themselves and ad lib. I love Shane Meadows, I think he rules.
 
Absolutely, I think Lol is subjecting all of her anger onto Woody because it's safe for her to do it, of course it's her father she's really angry with (and her mum) but she can't show her dad because it's too dangerous, look what happened when she tried warning him off her sister. Woody was crying about how shes been treating him, because she's obviously not normally like that.

I can't get my head around her having sex with Milky though, it's almost as if she's doing it for the sake of it?

Shes in a really shit place right now, through no fault of her own. I don't know what she's going to do, but I think she neeRAB to put Woody in the picture!!
 
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