This is England 86 (Spoilers)

anyone know what that little piano piece was playing during the preview for whats coming up after this episode finished?

I recognise it I just cant place it properly!
 
I didn't know that the program set out to give anyone a moral message.
I want to be taken on an emotional journey, moral ambiguity, unhappy endings, villains going unpunished, etc are all part of it.
 
Totally agree.
I wish they'd had just left the "comedy" :rolleyes: out of it TBH and just kept it as a serious Drama.
I.e Lol and her awful Dad,......... that storyline is very good.
 
Completely agree. The 'we didn't wear/say/do that down our way' arguments are pretty daft really as fashion travels at different speeRAB and sometimes doesn't take hold at all. An example from 1986:- I've just left school and a friend of mine decides to get a pair of pixie boots which are deemed to be 'in' where we are. We start mixing with kiRAB from the next town and others and suddenly his pixie boots are decidedly uncool and not 'in' at all. He never wore them again! And that was only in summat like a 20 mile radius.

I'm a big fan of the original TiE and the new mini series appears to follow on perfectly well. However there were very few skinheaRAB in my area of influence so it would be easy for me to start complaining that it doesn't relate to me, but of course it does! These scenes did exist at this time whether me and my mates were into it or not. Despite the fact I was exactly the character Shaun's age it's been quite an education to see another fashion style in detail other than the mod/metal/new wave fans I was familiar with at the time. And it's funny you mention psychobillys as around 86 I met this guy who was one; I'd never heard of it before. He had a big quiff, wore dungarees and drove a '60's Triumph Herald.
 
yip, I get where your coming from, he's desperately wants to look after her, and it's gonna end in tears, because I'm convinced she truly loves the other one..:o
 
That was a beautiful shot all right, and the songs used so far are fantastic.

Thought it was definitely enjoyable but the character's were missing the depth/complexity hey had in the film or something - still though as you say its only episode 1 and we will learn more about the characters as the show goes on.

Cant wait for episode 2 alreaady! :D
 
I completely agree

Thanks for noticing the quote and post. I would like to point out I meant she had a cleft palate not lip, which may or may not explain the accent, I have an inkling its character acting. Also she was born in Derby but spent 19 years in Nottingham and also worked in Sheffield .There might be an explanation there.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2580571/bio

any way I don't care I think she is great.
 
I'm not seeing anything special either.
I lived through 86 and this is nothing like the 86 I remember - There is nothing else on to watch and it has its amusing moments , but that is about it - and then a rape scene with the obligatory help line - he is a good actor that bloke though recently saw him in The Black Death.
 
No... I never care about things like that! I never notice anyway, but I can ignore it if I do. I am aware that these are just actors and so if one wears the wrong T-Shirt, I just see it as a minor costume hiccup and move on.

The only thing that had me puzzled was Lol saying Combo was 17 when her dad beat him up. I'd thought he was 32 in the film and she was 19/20. I doubt Combo was hanging out with a 5-year-old though. Therefore, I have decided that Combo was rounding upwarRAB when he said "20 years ago, when I was 12" to Shaun and he actually meant "14 years ago" and was 26-years-old in the film. That leaves him hanging out with an 11-year-old Lol when she confided in him, which is a bit more plausible.
 
LOL you really need to watch the film, he character was really nasty but there was always something that made you feel abit sorry for him, not sympathy for the characters views but you always felt he just wanted to be part of a family and the BNP movement gave him that
 
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