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Really I do not understand why this film was made, it has no story, doesn't inform or educate about the subject. Drifts from one disconnected scene to another with no linkage just a complete waste of the actors talents (and they are good actors) and ok the scenery was well filmed but why bother. I can get a trane ticket and look out the window to see the scenery and probably experience a better story in doing so. People seem to rate Mike Leigh but he is only as good as his last film and that isn't very good at all. So many of these directors seem to look down their noses at the customer and don't feel they have to make a good film, I can't understand why they get funded.

Sadly although there is a first class pool of talent they are wasted in this long winded boring trash. It could easily have been condenced into one 45 minute episode. Six episodes is just silly, the dialogues and writing are what a six former would have produced, and I am probably maligning the six former. I haven't read the book and it may well be a good read but the drama written for this mini series is woeful and good luck to those who manged to watch the whole without falling asleep. For myself I would recommend watching ants crawl up a wall or paint drying as a more intellectual exercise rather that this supposed entertainment.

The film is set in 1920's and yet we have a couple with mixed races (black/white/coffee), a black criminal judge or an Asian policewoman ( the first asian police women was Karpal Kaur Sandhu and she didn't join the Met until 1973) , all of which would be very unusual at that time and particuarly in the same town. The problem with this is that it's a bit like one of the characters pulling out a mobile phone, it just doesn't fit with the time setting, so why do it? Presumably just so the producers/directors or sponsers can say they are inclusive. Wokeness strikes again.....

That said my main issue with this film is that although it is supposed to be a comedy it didn't make me laugh at all. There's was lot of swearing and bad language which is OK in context but it isn't, of itself, funny at all, at least to me. The story was quite thin and not really that close to the real story that this is based on. Glad I got the DVD from the library 'cos I wouldn't want to pay for this unfunny mess.