Louisa Mellor Aug 24, 2016
Channel 4’s one-off drama feat. This Is England’s Stephen Graham is tense and thought-provoking with a terrific central performance…
This review contains spoilers.
With very few tweaks, The Watchman could slot in as an episode of dystopian tech anthology series Black Mirror. No matter that it takes place in the present and features technology already so widespread you’ve almost certainly been captured by it multiple times today, its depiction of modern alienation aligns it perfectly with the Charlie Brooker drama. The two also share a composer in Jon Opstad (whose cleverly spare score is the closest thing Stephen Graham could reliably call a co-star here) and the ability to captivate in no time at all.
The Watchman seizes you in its first minutes with a simple but urgent problem. An anonymous woman is preparing to jump to her death – can lone CCTV operator Carl...
Channel 4’s one-off drama feat. This Is England’s Stephen Graham is tense and thought-provoking with a terrific central performance…
This review contains spoilers.
With very few tweaks, The Watchman could slot in as an episode of dystopian tech anthology series Black Mirror. No matter that it takes place in the present and features technology already so widespread you’ve almost certainly been captured by it multiple times today, its depiction of modern alienation aligns it perfectly with the Charlie Brooker drama. The two also share a composer in Jon Opstad (whose cleverly spare score is the closest thing Stephen Graham could reliably call a co-star here) and the ability to captivate in no time at all.
The Watchman seizes you in its first minutes with a simple but urgent problem. An anonymous woman is preparing to jump to her death – can lone CCTV operator Carl...
- 8/24/2016
- Den of Geek
Channel 4 has announced a series that will follow the investigation into a fatal stabbing in Bristol.
With a working title of Murder, the three-episode series will run as one-hour instalments.
The Films of Record series, directed by BAFTA-winning director David Nath (Bedlam), has been filmed over 18 months with unprecedented access to the police force's Major Crime Unit as they investigate the murder of a 19-year-old man.
Channel 4's Deputy Head of Documentaries Amy Flanagan said: "Unlike previous crime documentaries, this is uniquely shot as a drama - a ground-breaking police series followed in real time and inside the mind of the detectives.
"But with the heart-wrenching story of a young man's senseless death, his family's pain and the police's determination to achieve justice for them at its heart, viewers will be in no doubt they are watching real life; with all the far-reaching consequences such an act of...
With a working title of Murder, the three-episode series will run as one-hour instalments.
The Films of Record series, directed by BAFTA-winning director David Nath (Bedlam), has been filmed over 18 months with unprecedented access to the police force's Major Crime Unit as they investigate the murder of a 19-year-old man.
Channel 4's Deputy Head of Documentaries Amy Flanagan said: "Unlike previous crime documentaries, this is uniquely shot as a drama - a ground-breaking police series followed in real time and inside the mind of the detectives.
"But with the heart-wrenching story of a young man's senseless death, his family's pain and the police's determination to achieve justice for them at its heart, viewers will be in no doubt they are watching real life; with all the far-reaching consequences such an act of...
- 8/28/2015
- Digital Spy
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