OMFG. Marina Hyde is one of the greatest writers in UK print media. If Wollaston.... no, it doesn't bear thinking about.
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Originally posted by jeanmid View PostYeah he is terrible although Stuart Heritage is worse.
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I reckon "Sam Wollaston spent four days onboard a trawler" is barely disguised code for "we listened to our readers and decided to give him the worst assignment we could find, without actually sacking him"
Like when McNulty got dumped on the harbour patrol boat.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI reckon "Sam Wollaston spent four days onboard a trawler" is barely disguised code for "we listened to our readers and decided to give him the worst assignment we could find, without actually sacking him"
Like when McNulty got dumped on the harbour patrol boat.
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Lucy Mangan's latest is strikingly Wollaston-esque. Perhaps she's just phoning it in on the holiday period.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...te-skating-duo
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This? Then yes.
Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland review – pure gallus from a folk comedy hero
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...y_to_clipboard
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More evidence that Sam Wollaston is being led a merry dance
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...e_iOSApp_Other
bloody hell, he’s 53, rather than 13.
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I think Lucy Mangan has done her job as TV critic, but am bewildered by this review of Chernobyl, which I liked a lot, albeit with reservations.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...-disaster-epic
"It is a bad sign when the first few minutes of a drama raise more extra-narrative questions than answers."
Isn't that what drama is all about?
As for this
"Did the residents have no fear of what such a sight might mean? Why are they not running around trying to flee, as we would be?"
I guess not everyone can remember the Soviet Union existing, but it should be fairly obvious that life there might not have been remotely comparable to London in 2019.Last edited by diggedy derek; 02-07-2019, 12:55.
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I just knocked it off yesterday.
It was a great show, with the exception of Emily Watson's character, who was Andrei Sakharov in a dress. She wouldn't have been allowed *near* the Chernobyl Commission with those opinions...proven, I guess, by the fact Sakharov himself wasn't.
That's the problem with composite characters, having 12 people tell Legasov at various points that he needed to speak up* is plausible, having one person voice those 12 opinions is barmy. She'd be dishing out school dinners in 1986 Belarus.
*Which he didn't really do, if I remember correctly. The testimony was really from the tapes he stashed after he killed himself, and those went around the Soviet scientific community like samizdat.
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By the way Reginald, having found your comment from over a month ago...they explicitly say in Episode 2 that the doctors can't give the firefighters/nuclear workers/etc morphine when the radiation kicks in and their cells basically begin to die. I think they said finding a vein is impossible at that point or something like that.
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