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Television "drama" at its worse.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/broadchurch-review-the-stakes-are-finally-high-but-can-we-forgive-the-implausible-plotlines-10049584.html Broadchurch: Can we forgive the implausible plot lines?        Last week, I posed the question "I shall continue to watch as the programme cannot get any more unbelievable.Can it?" and doubted if this "serial soap" could get any worse. I was wrong, because not only has it got worse,it has also become the vehicle for yet another gay affair/relationship. It also is incredible that the story line persists with the pacemaker nonsense of Alec telling people that he thought that he would not recover from the anesthetic. I realise that the programme was recorded some time ago, but a pair of scissors to remove this glaringly mistaken line would have not have even been noticed. I repeat what I said last week "Why Alec Hardy was lingering at deaths door and under general anesthetic...

From Spooks to Line of Duty.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/20/line-of-duty-review-episode-2-keeley-hawes_n_4821889.html 'Line Of Duty'  Keeley Hawes As DI Denton   Keeley Hawes in "Spooks" as Zoe Reynolds   I first saw Keeley Hawes in the terrific "Spooks" as Zoe Reynolds. (She ran off with an Irish photographer,but that's another story), then in the awful remake of "Upstairs Downstairs" which should have been consigned to the dustbin rather than shown on television.  "Lady Agnes Holland": Keeley Hawes in "Upstairs, Downstairs" Ashes to Ashes    Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes were classic series both now in my collection of boxed complete series. First with Sam Tyler and then Alex Drake with Gene Hunt, Ray Carling and Chris Skelton making up the cast for a quality British television series at its best. Line of Duty is following in that tradition.   Keeley Hawes as DI Lindsay Denton, in ...