Blunkett teleplay

thank god we're agreeing on something at long last mark. it was so obvious and lacking in nuance that it made me think that it was actually political satire for hollyoaks fans. i hated the way they portrayed blunkett as some kind of retard - sure, the dude is blind and looks a bit funny but he is NOT stupid. that he's quite canny is the very reasons he had the potential to become one of the most dangerous home secretaries ever. the female characters weren't even characters - some so thin and vapid that they barely had any impact at all (carole caplin - possibly this is the case in real life with her, though - cherie blair etc) and kimberly quinn was just irredeemable, which i'm sure she isn't. in the end you felt blunkett was just a lovesick mental pygmy being played by this totally unsympathetic femme fatale figure, which i'm more or less positive wasn't the case. the fact is that blunkett's arrogance was his downfall, the fact that he thought he could get away with shit - not that he was a completely pussywhipped incompetent. even the jeffrey archer thing from a while back was better (mainly thanks to the scene where archer hit it from the back with margaret thatcher- a real triumph of grotesquerie as afr as i'm concerned). it's also funny that i watched this about two days after watching the entire first series of house of cards, which brought it into real sharp relief how good parliamentary satire can be when it's good and how ghastly it can be when its not.

actually yr spot-on - it wasn't satire, it was pure farce which is of course and entirely different thing. it was exactly like a brian rix version of the already received position.