Red Riding

[????]

I'm genetically predisposed to not watch any dramas about the north as they are inevitably chocker with..

...whimsy, patronisation of Working Classes, sentimentality to the point of morbidness, huge historical inaacuracy, one dimensional views on society and the kind of blatant communist propoganda that only some professional northener living in Hampstaed can produce..

...so, I din't watch it. Was I wrong?

[bigbadwolf]

10 out of 10 Quids but I still enjoyed it.

[Ted Max]

Oh aye, it was absolutely chocca with whimsy and sentimentality. I emitted a wry chuckle at the depctions of rape, torture and murder over a number of years of several young girls. The nightmarish portrayal of broken relationships and lives of all concerned certainly had me reaching for the hankies in sweet pain. And the patronising view of the psychotic working class coppers beating confessions out of innocents certainly had me humming The International.

Eh?

[bigbadwolf]

Although the phrases 'Eebygum' and 'Eckythump' were conspicuous in their absence.

[Brendan]

Oh aye it were a right Tyke fest. Like Geoffrey Boycott vs Parky in Celebrity Deathmatch.

This statement may or may not be sarcastic. I can never bloody tell with Northerners.

[Ted Max]

It was like a boring episode of Juliet Bravo, really. With added stitching on of swans wings onto girls' backs.

[????]

That sounds like a Heston Blumenthal cooking programme to me.

[bigbadwolf]

No but Ramseys kitchen nightmare was on after.