Entertainment For Lively Minds
Did anyone see Gunrush on Sunday night?
Posted by Huw Williams on 24 August 2009 - 6:35pm.
A good piece of drama starring Timothy Spall, much of it set among drug dealing street gangs in South London. The thing that struck me was how much of the street scenes seemed to be inspired by or borrowed from The Wire, even to the extent of showing the neighbourhood crack dealer and his cronies lounging on a beat up old sofa outside a decaying set of flats, in the style of the Barksdale crew.
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which channel was it on?
Oh come on! It was the
Oh come on! It was the biggest pile of horsesh*t since the last series of The Street by Jimmy McGovern - ie last week. No wonder UK TV drama is in terminal decline.
Funnily enough Timothy Spall was in the last episode of The Street too. The man is pathetic. How can he be venerated as one of the best actors this country has produced in recent years (albeit by fellow 'luvvies') ?
He has played the same hand wringing, downtrodden, sorry arsed sad sack his entire life. He even played Peter Taylor that way in The Damned United.
He should do us all a favour and get that punchable, hang-dog, one dimensional thing called a face off our screens forever.
Oh, and wasn't Paul Kaye's smackhead portrayal Oscar worthy?!
Not sure any of that
makes him a bad actor. He was brilliant in 'Pierrepoint' playing the part of the eponymous hangman, for example.
I really enjoyed The Street,
I really enjoyed The Street, flawed as it was. Stephen Graham, Joseph Mawle and Jonas Armstrong were particulalry impressive. Shame about some of the ludicrous plotting and emotionally over-the-top story lines.
Maybe so but it's time for
Maybe so but it's time for him to dust down those gallows and put us all out of his misery!
Ralph.
Always call them that. Not ' Raif '. Or ' Smythe '. You are RALPH SMITH. Now go away.