Misleadingly sold as a show about the influence of 2-tone but it isn't. In fact there is very little 2-tone music on the soundtrack. Everything about it isn't quite right; the accents, the situation, the fashion etc, etc. I don't really know where to start with this but a lot has been said about the accents but worse than that is how strangely formal and old fashioned people speak, maybe Mr Knight was stuck in the 1920s Peaky Blinder era. The 'riots' was woefully depicted as a about 10 'rioters' and 6 coppers having a bit of a low key ruck. The main characters all make philisophical speeches like we all did in 1980s West Mids in the 80s (for those that didn't get the sarcasm, no one did). It's got 6/7 plot point and you would have thought this would mean the pace would be fast but it isn't, it's painfully slow. It takes ages for the band situation to get going and they only have one song...terrible. There's just so much wrong with it. So, Gregory, has joined the British Army, got to the rank of Sergeant and they suddenly realise that he has family in the IRA!! The characters aren't relatable, there's not even the merest hint of humour and they pile more and more depressing storylines on a painfully slowly paced show. Really bad.
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