Headed by a warm maternal Miss G.Mckee(there's a sentence I never thought I'd write)a group of plucky schoolchildren straight from CBBC drama dept.bring "justice" to those previously denied it. Take stuffy repressed Middle -England as portrayed by Enid Blyton and give it an "Edgy,urban,gritty"spin,take away the posh accents and the "horribly white"environment and you have what 2013 looks like in the imaginations of the Highate Mafia. As a change from helping old ladies to cross the road,our little boy and girl scouts bring down those nasty men the silly bumbling constable can't catch.Those of you old enough can imagine Mr George Woodbridge huffing and puffing along a leafy Surrey lane wiping his brow as Wiliam Brown and the Outlaws run off having broken the vicarage window with a catapult. Add another ten minutes to the show so how these clever - clever smug youngsters managed to snare their prey which has been obvious all along and indulge in some creaky camera angles that have been a cliché since "The cabinet of Dr Caligari" and lo and behold,"By any means" appears on our screen. As the show is not meant to be serious there's no point in debating the moral issues of due legal process,privacy laws,phone hacking etc. Just say "News International" would bite its own hand off to employ the lot of them.
Review of By Any Means
