This Is England '86

[JawD 99]

Blonde lasses face is as rough as toast tbh

 

Hard to tell when its so frigging airbrushed. Actually, its prob the same lass that I posted

[Gary Neville 0]

Blonde lasses face is as rough as toast tbh

 

Hard to tell when its so frigging airbrushed. Actually, its prob the same lass that I posted

 

The bird I posted above is Louise Porter ( a scouser on babestation)

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Blonde lasses face is as rough as toast tbh

 

Hard to tell when its so frigging airbrushed. Actually, its prob the same lass that I posted

 

The bird I posted above is Louise Porter ( a scouser on babestation)

She looks like the fat barmaid who used to be on corrie. I would've said she was scouse tbh.

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Trish I think she was called.

[Guest alex]

Agree to an extent with some of what Renton says but I still enjoyed it. Always good to see Bones off Operation Good Guys as well

 

My enjoyment of boxing has increased tenfold since Mark Burdis became the announcer for Frank Warren's fights

I pissed myself laughing when I saw him doing that like. Kept remembering the bit where he goes on about his love of dance in good guys. Or the bit where he's the wedding planner in 'Love, Honour and Obey'

[Gemmill 44110]

Blonde lasses face is as rough as toast tbh

 

Hard to tell when its so frigging airbrushed. Actually, its prob the same lass that I posted

 

The bird I posted above is Louise Porter ( a scouser on babestation)

 

A region beams with pride.

[Guest alex]

[JawD 99]

Blonde lasses face is as rough as toast tbh

 

Hard to tell when its so frigging airbrushed. Actually, its prob the same lass that I posted

 

The bird I posted above is Louise Porter ( a scouser on babestation)

 

A region beams with pride.

 

[manc-mag 1]

Blonde lasses face is as rough as toast tbh

 

Hard to tell when its so frigging airbrushed. Actually, its prob the same lass that I posted

 

The bird I posted above is Louise Porter ( a scouser on babestation)

 

A region beams with pride.

 

She's built like a JCB anyway.

 

Georgie is far better (from unconfirmed testimonials I've heard)

[Gary Neville 0]

She's built like a JCB anyway.

 

Ha ha you know her? you must wank to babestation because you can't get a bird ha ha. The only reason I know her is she used to live in the same road as me. True shes put on a bit of weight since that last pic I posted but I would not throw her out of bed if you would it means your gay.

[manc-mag 1]

She's built like a JCB anyway.

 

Ha ha you know her? you must wank to babestation because you can't get a bird ha ha. The only reason I know her is she used to live in the same road as me. True shes put on a bit of weight since that last pic I posted but I would not throw her out of bed if you would it means your gay.

 

You'd have a job throwing her anywhere.

[Gemmill 44110]

She's built like a JCB anyway.

 

Ha ha you know her? you must wank to babestation because you can't get a bird ha ha. The only reason I know her is she used to live in the same road as me. True shes put on a bit of weight since that last pic I posted but I would not throw her out of bed if you would it means your gay.

 

Explained that pretty unequivocally.

[shackbleep 0]

She's built like a JCB anyway.

 

Ha ha you know her? you must wank to babestation because you can't get a bird ha ha. The only reason I know her is she used to live in the same road as me. True shes put on a bit of weight since that last pic I posted but I would not throw her out of bed if you would it means your gay.

 

Fidelity is about as sparse as hard work on Merseyside....

[Billy Castell 0]

She's built like a JCB anyway.

 

Ha ha you know her? you must wank to babestation because you can't get a bird ha ha. The only reason I know her is she used to live in the same road as me. True shes put on a bit of weight since that last pic I posted but I would not throw her out of bed if you would it means your gay.

 

Fidelity is about as sparse as hard work on Merseyside....

 

Just ask Wayne Rooney and Steeeevieeee G's missus (allegedly).

[Happy Face 29]

My only complaint would be the biker gang who were like something out of a sitcom.

[Ruler of Planet Houston 1]

My only complaint would be the biker gang who were like something out of a sitcom.

 

I thought they were the best bit. Takes me back to 'the hill' days

[Besty 4]

That was rather shite.

[Guest alex]

Yeah, some decent bits but overall disappointing I thought. I'll probably watch the rest for nostalgia value but it seems a bit like style over substance. The party in the house with the jacuzzi didn't really add anything to the storyline and was obviously just there so you could have a few amusing slo-mos of people jumping in the jacuzzi and people shagging etc. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. Thought the dialogue was really lame. I think Meadows has sold out a bit tbh.

[Tooj 17]

It's obvious where this is headed like - Combo will come back and Shaun and Woody will loose their way due to being hurt by the ethnic minority.

[Renton 21054]

Yeah, some decent bits but overall disappointing I thought. I'll probably watch the rest for nostalgia value but it seems a bit like style over substance. The party in the house with the jacuzzi didn't really add anything to the storyline and was obviously just there so you could have a few amusing slo-mos of people jumping in the jacuzzi and people shagging etc. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. Thought the dialogue was really lame. I think Meadows has sold out a bit tbh.

 

Aye.

 

I wouldn't mind so much but it didn't even capture the zeitgeist imo (big word for today ). Doesn't do the film any justice at all unfortunately, only 2 more episodes to redeem itself.

[Guest alex]

Yeah, some decent bits but overall disappointing I thought. I'll probably watch the rest for nostalgia value but it seems a bit like style over substance. The party in the house with the jacuzzi didn't really add anything to the storyline and was obviously just there so you could have a few amusing slo-mos of people jumping in the jacuzzi and people shagging etc. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. Thought the dialogue was really lame. I think Meadows has sold out a bit tbh.

 

Aye.

 

I wouldn't mind so much but it didn't even capture the zeitgeist imo (big word for today ). Doesn't do the film any justice at all unfortunately, only 2 more episodes to redeem itself.

Yeah, it seems to have got the living rooms right but that's about it on that score. 2J's probably spot on as well since Combo's already been in the trailers.

[Tom 14011]

I missed the first one but didn't really pick up much point in the second one. The dialogue as Alex picked up on, was atrocious and the actors were quite careless.

 

The film was class and the nostalgia was supported well by a strong narrative. It seems to me like Meadows is cashing in on the Skins audience. ''Fuck it, whack it in slow mo and get in that jacuzzi with a can!'

[Happy Face 29]

For anyone who sniffs that television is a dumb or trivial medium, Shane Meadows has provided the perfect riposte: This Is England ‘86 (Channel 4), the director’s four-part follow-up to his acclaimed 2006 film This Is England. Its second episode aired last night and it is developing into a compelling TV drama which mixes light-hearted humour with a real depth of feeling.

 

The original film told the story of Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), a fatherless 12 year-old who fell in with a group of apolitical teenage skinheads in 1983. Their happy-go-lucky world collapsed when Combo, an older gang member, returned from jail, bringing racist violence with him. Set three years on, the TV series picked up last week as if the characters had been growing up in the background, with most of the original cast reprising their roles.

 

Whereas the film focused on the single, dark narrative of Shaun’s experience, the series allows Meadows to range more widely. So while Shaun – who fails his CSEs and gets a short-lived job renting out VHS videos (“These are the future!”) – is still a key character, the first two episodes told the story of Lol (Vicky McClure) and Woody (Joe Gilgun). A likeable couple, they perfectly captured that twentysomething teetering between rebellion and respectability.

 

Their alternative wedding – the bride wore Doc Martens – flopped when Woody couldn’t say his vows; by the end of episode two Lol’s troubled past was prising them apart. One of the most powerful scenes of the series so far was when she confronted her abusive father, whom her mother had welcomed back under the pretext that he had “changed”. “Changed how?” she asked. “Changed his haircut? Changed his socks?”

 

As ever with Meadows, there is a deft – and sometimes unsettling – balance of the tragic and the comic. The first two episodes have already provided many laugh-out-loud moments. “Mummy will be with you in one minute. I’ll bring you some milk and biscuits,” simpered a woman caught in flagrante, looking anything but maternal, by her young son. Also possessing an amusing lack of self-awareness was a nasty little oik who made Shaun knock on a girl’s door and insult her so that he could rush to her defence – if Shaun refused, he would beat him up. “She thinks I’m a bully,” he justified himself. “This will show her I’m sensitive.”

 

The shift to the small screen has not compromised Meadows’s artistic touch. He is the master of that creative writing mantra, “show, don’t tell”, lacing this series with images which communicate far more than many a laboured bit of dialogue. A “dole not coal” pin badge nodded to the context; the sight of Lol

 

in the shower, water cascading from her cropped hair to the nape of her neck, suggested the vulnerability beneath her toughness. There is, however, the occasional overlap in the imagery which might start to grate as the series wears on. In episode one, we saw the crazy young things racing wheelchairs down a hospital corridor; in episode two they hijacked two golf buggies for yet more mobilised hi-jinks.

 

Still, with Combo set to return, the drama is likely to take a turn for the darker. This Is England was a provocative title for the film, suggesting that national identity was tied up with lost innocence and bigotry. In the follow-up, the same gang again looks as though it will be torn apart, but this time by infidelity rather than racist hatred. If this suggests a gloomy take on the national psyche, there is much more going on here: Meadows captures a certain camaraderie, coarseness, irony and warmth that are distinctly English, and make for distinctly good television.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandra...ies-review.html

 

Got it on the v+ box to watch

[Guest alex]

I think the kid who played Shaun in the film is good because in that he's not really acting (or he isn't thinking about acting) and the same was true (maybe to a lesser extent) in Somers Town. Same with the lad playing Romeo in A Room for Romeo Brass (who was also good in the film of This is England). I think now they're trying to act and they're out of their comfort zone their limitations really show. Even This is England (the film) is a bit contrived compared to the realism he achieved in some of his earlier stuff. I caught a bit of Dead Man's Shoes again the other night and it blows the socks off this series.

Edited September 15, 2010 by alex

[Happy Face 29]

Seems to me the series is suffering in comparison to the film.

 

I don't think it's that good either.

 

I struggle to think of another UK TV drama I've enjoyed as much as I did episode one though. So on that score it deserves high praise.