Dave
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Post by Dave on Feb 17, 2013 20:59:45 GMT
Even for CTM intercutting between an abortion and a manicure was decidedly dark.
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Post by Rad on Feb 17, 2013 23:12:57 GMT
It was so harrowing - how they managed to do that before the watershed I don't know - way more effective and dark than if they'd just shown the abortion scene.
Sharon Small is always great, isn't she?
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Post by Carrotline on Feb 18, 2013 21:09:01 GMT
I thought last night's episode was brilliantly and sympathetically done. I love the whole series (and the books). A lot of my friends write it off as cosy Sunday night TV, but it's just good storytelling and social history. I love it.
Also, I got drunk at children's charity sleepout last year, and Jenny Agutter was there. I really wanted to go over and ask her for a hug. Thankfully, my friends talked me out of it. Shame.
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Paul
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Post by Paul on Feb 18, 2013 21:22:59 GMT
Did anyone else recognise Tanya Turner's best lesbian Hazel as Poplar's answer to Vera Drake.
And last week's spina bifida hot daddy was the very same chap who lost his foot in a Sterling Cooper lawnmower accident.
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Post by Steven on Feb 20, 2013 0:21:24 GMT
Even having read about the abortion/manicure scene on here before I watched this week's episode, I still found it really dark and disturbing. I think that's more likely to give me sleepless nights than anything I've seen on this series of Black Mirror.
Interestingly, a trail for this episode made by a continuity announcer earlier in the week mentioned something about "a young mother" desperately trying to end a pregnancy. Clearly someone had misinterpreted the synopsis, because with the best will in the world, I think Sharon Small's days of playing young mothers are behind her. She was brilliant in this episode, mind. It was a good episode for Helen George, too - I thought she was fantastic in that scene with the TV host, alone in his flat, getting a chance to show a different side of Trixie from her usual saucy, confident demeanour.
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