Everything about the series is a reminder of what we were served up in the 60s 70s and 80s.
One of the motivations, certainly from Kennedy, Gleisner and Cilauro was to get television back for ripping them off when they were growing up in the 70s.
The series was so effective that I seriously found myself absorbed in the twists and turns of the plot, even though even those were supposed to be satirical.
Even satire itself can wear thin, Private-Eye with its caption on a photo of a statue of Queen Victoria had her saying "ho ho very satirical" so it is difficult to sustain the intensity over the entire episode.
All that was needed was for the actors to copy every detail, theme music, incidental music, camera-work, stunts and the laughs flow from that.
There's a little gloating on how much we have progressed since the primitive sexist days of the 70s and 80s, considering the series is now 18 years old, the awareness of sexism has not progressed a lot since then, if at all.
Anyway, enough serious social commentary, it was great to watch this series for the first time in the last few days, very tightly scripted, Tim Ferguson was Kojak like in his use of his own language to moralize about the state of society and inequality.
On a serious note satire may have the power to induce social change, but those who need to be changed find it the hardest to realize that they are being satirized. It's a wrap.
One of the motivations, certainly from Kennedy, Gleisner and Cilauro was to get television back for ripping them off when they were growing up in the 70s.
The series was so effective that I seriously found myself absorbed in the twists and turns of the plot, even though even those were supposed to be satirical.
Even satire itself can wear thin, Private-Eye with its caption on a photo of a statue of Queen Victoria had her saying "ho ho very satirical" so it is difficult to sustain the intensity over the entire episode.
All that was needed was for the actors to copy every detail, theme music, incidental music, camera-work, stunts and the laughs flow from that.
There's a little gloating on how much we have progressed since the primitive sexist days of the 70s and 80s, considering the series is now 18 years old, the awareness of sexism has not progressed a lot since then, if at all.
Anyway, enough serious social commentary, it was great to watch this series for the first time in the last few days, very tightly scripted, Tim Ferguson was Kojak like in his use of his own language to moralize about the state of society and inequality.
On a serious note satire may have the power to induce social change, but those who need to be changed find it the hardest to realize that they are being satirized. It's a wrap.