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Favourite Mini-Series / Drama Serial
Yes it's another telly thread!
I don't often watch mini-series - I tend to prefer dramas that are ongoing (or are at least intended to be!) But now and then a self-contained, serialised drama of 2-8 episodes just really hits the spot. Not sure what you guys would consider a short series really - over here recurring series are often fairly short anyway. I don't include things like Sherlock in this, despite being very short series (3 eps a time) nor series that were intended to run to further series but weren't picked up (like Fades). But the single story told across a fairly short number of episodes (usually 2-4 but if intended as a single story, then more eps). So, which mini-series have rocked your world, floated your boat or otherwise left their mark? I'll start with what I consider to be one the best single series dramas ever produced on Brit tv: Holding On. Written by Tony Marchant and told across 8 episodes, this was a real game changer for British drama in the 90s. Here's what the BFI site has to say about it: Quote:
There aren't many youtube clips unfortunately. But I highly recommend seeking this one out if you haven't seen it. A couple of clips though to show how the flavour ofthe drama shifted and changed throughout: In this we see one of our key characters, a tax man who is starting to lose his grip. He's a by the rules, highly moral character - but he's living in a shitty flat in a shitty area and has just been burgled. And he spends his working life investigating millionaires. he truly believes in what he does - but that belief is starting to crumble. There's something in his past that we don't know about yet - something from his youth. We know it plays on his mind, but that's all we know. His descent from moral arbiter to something else is one of the most memorable storylines for me. Tonal shift - to our occasional narrator, the food critic and writer. As far as I recall, he is the only character that breaks the fourth wall, and to an extent he ties all the disparate stories together: And the wrap up from the final episode, narrated by the food critic: I haven't done it justice really, with these clips. There were so many character stories all intertwined and connected mainly by location and theme - as much a love affair with London as anything else.
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