Watched 3-Jul
Blurays
There's an air of silliness or something here.
The plot is nuts. Some vaguely defined alien who lives in the telly is sucking people's faces/brains to 'feast'... on what?
Apart from the "how does that work then?" question, the "big audience" is key to this.
If they waited 5 years then the general TV audience would have grown by 5 times, if they had waited 20 years the TV audience would be nearer 95% of the populace.
If they had attacked the general TV audience in California or Japan AT THE SAME TIME they would have reached much larger audiences.
So why Britain?
Ummm... and what the hell is the climax thing about. It's shouty and exciting but the drama isn't there because of the handwaving explanations...
The actual story and the direction, dialogue, are pretty good.
There's an anti cyclic side plot about the Dad character's hypocritical bullying and toadying which presages his being kicked out of the house.
But the main plot is weak and there's an obvious attempt to conceal this by some kind of facile, aesthetic cover up.
I'll cite:
- The Police interview with the DI and the Doctor (which starts and ends with the same police procedural cliche....).
- Dropping a Kylie quote
- The copper guy's reaction to first a portable TV and then a colour TV...
- The use of a Betamax cassette and the technobabble about wiping it... (Mark Gatiss knows full well that wiping a Beta tape would not be necessary since because it's Beta no one will be able to play it ever again.)
ABM Rating 2.20/4.00
LJM Rating 2.20/5.00
SPJ Rating 4.50/10
No. 142 (out of 180)
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