Friday, 16 August 2013
WHY WATCH THE NEWS WHEN YOU CAN WATCH DEPRESSION TV INSTEAD? (Razorblades optional)
Saturday nights in August you used to be able to rely on a round of repeats, game shows and more repeats as TV schedulers tried to avoid wasting good drama budgets on the saddos who weren't spending the school holidays lying on a beach. Not this year. No, this summer we have been treated to Jane Campion's Twin Peaks-esque (but no Agent Cooper and no coffee) Top of the Lake, where you can watch Elisabeth (Peggy from Mad Men) Moss act a self-flagellating Peter Mullan and Holly Hunter off the screen with her low-key performance; the undeniably Scandi-inspired Southcliffe - a little bit Hungerford, a little bit Seascale, a lot Broadchurch and almost too grim to watch; and The Mill, which is a bleak historical drama too far for me. Everyone's got a pain threshold and The Mill is mine. Pick your personal pain level and tune-in.
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