peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2011 08 13 ThisIsEngland86

This is England '86

Sat, Aug 13, 2011./noise/movies | Link

A follow-on TV series from This is England. At about twice the length, these four episodes feel less focussed than the movie, taking on more of the melodrama of a soap opera than a Thatcher-era skinhead biopic. I really don't like what they did to Woody, and Shaun seems too ineffectual, but otherwise the characters prove worthy of a revisit that fleshes them out. Riveting.