not-bono-ever
meh
Anyone else been watching this ? I was well engrossed in it.... Bean can still turn out a gritty Northern performance ...
Broken with that Seen Bean bloke
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oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Been watching it but missed tonight's. Thought it was good - I guess Broken is a reference to Broken Britain?
Thought this has been moving and thought provoking and Sean Bean deserves all the credit he is getting for the role of Father Michael Kerrigan. Jimmy McGovern states that Broken is his homage to It's A Wonderful Life.
The themes covered are relevant to modern life and the problems the people he is trying to help will ring true in many homes in the UK in the 21st century.
Hard to watch at times but good television.
The themes covered are relevant to modern life and the problems the people he is trying to help will ring true in many homes in the UK in the 21st century.
Hard to watch at times but good television.
Been catching up on it, seen the first three.
Brilliantly acted but terribly written, I feel. Characters are introduced almost in the same scene that terrible things happen to them, which gives no chance to build empathy or provide us with a reason to care. It crosses into eyerolling melodrama too much, with the SAD being overplayed -- none of those people have *anything* good in their lives. It's incredibly bitty, with segments of story suddenly being levered in and then thrown away again, with no purpose or direction for it. And the worst crime of all in drama -- all this piecemeal story with characters we have been given no reason to care about makes it dull, dull, dull.
I'll stick it out, having invested the time in the first three of six. Maybe the second half will improve. Even if so, however, that doesn't excuse the poor drama-by-numbers nature of the first half.
Brilliantly acted but terribly written, I feel. Characters are introduced almost in the same scene that terrible things happen to them, which gives no chance to build empathy or provide us with a reason to care. It crosses into eyerolling melodrama too much, with the SAD being overplayed -- none of those people have *anything* good in their lives. It's incredibly bitty, with segments of story suddenly being levered in and then thrown away again, with no purpose or direction for it. And the worst crime of all in drama -- all this piecemeal story with characters we have been given no reason to care about makes it dull, dull, dull.
I'll stick it out, having invested the time in the first three of six. Maybe the second half will improve. Even if so, however, that doesn't excuse the poor drama-by-numbers nature of the first half.
not-bono-ever
meh
I think its worth it having a go. I know what you mean about randomness in the charachters popping up - maybe it had to be compressed into a shorter series or summit ? It is McGovern by numbers but that isnt a bad thing
The Fornicator
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A hard, gruelling watch at times but God that was magnificent. Still on the iPlayer: BBC iPlayer - Broken
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
just caught up with this on netflix - I agree with the McGovern by numbers but glad he's done it anyway
If only the church used it's influence for fighting injustice more often!
If only the church used it's influence for fighting injustice more often!
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