Hard Sun

Fretwired

Luther creator and writer has created a new BBC drama called Hard Sun. Watch it, but be prepared for the fact its violent.

BBC 9.35 tonight.

I will say no more.

EricTheWeary

Quite looking forward to this. I have started on my Xmas whiskey though so I might not be the best arbiter of taste at the moment. 

AlexC

This looks like the business. Jim Sturgess is always great and the rest of the cast are terrific. And the writer’s done two of my fave Dr Who episodes of recent years. I’m setting series record for this! thanks for the heads up.

quarky

Thanks for the heads up! Series link request sent. 

breakstuff

Looking forward to this.

Alnico

well...........That's almost an hour of my life I'll never get back.

Utter bullshit.

dindude

What a load of old tosh that was...

thermionic

Ha! I read a couple of previews that said it was crap so I wasn’t going to bother. Better than I expected, but with a couple of cheesey aspects - arts graduates don’t know how computers work so they’re always portrayed in totally unrealistic ways, and I hate on-screen punchups that leave one of the protagonists staggering and bloodied. Violence is nothing like that really.

On the plus side, I could do with a bit of apocalyptic conspiracy escapism and it did the trick.

Nitefly

I thought it was poor.  I didn't care for any of the characters, and the dialogue was terrible.  Doctor Who is about where he belongs.

Won't be watching any more.

EricTheWeary

Err, dunno. MrsTheWeary enjoyed it and the whole series is now on iPlayer so we might get through it all this week. Hopefully it comes together a bit better as it goes on. 

mellowsun

Any good? We were watching Spiral.

ourmaninthenorth

I liked it.

57Deluxe

missed it - I was drinking red wine and smoking cigars with my guitar mate talking about women and life...

Kilgore

A bit silly, but it kept me entertained. I even watched episode 2 on iplayer, so I'll have to stick with it out of curiosity.

guitars4you

Alnico said:

well...........That's almost an hour of my life I'll never get back.

Utter bullshit.

yes I feel similar - put the planner on for The Spiral on the other channel and wish I'd stayed with it 

Poor in so many ways - don't see me watching part 2

EricTheWeary

I might stick with it just to see what happens with Aisling Bea’s accent - does she successfully summon up the ghost of Dick Van Dyke.

thumpingrug

Im watching pt3 now.  Its pretty much the same, but theres bugger all else on. 

quarky

I quite enjoyed it actually! Only seen episode 1, but it wasn't bad. Fast pace once it got going, and decent enough action. 

chillidoggy

The arty-farty, dimly-lit police offices again. I wonder if real police stations are like that?

Garthy

It’s fucking terrible. I switched off when MI5 turned the place into the Wild West. 

EricTheWeary

chillidoggy said:

The arty-farty, dimly-lit police offices again. I wonder if real police stations are like that?

I’ve been in a few and no.