June 17th 2009 02:34 am
State of Play
Dear faithful readers,
we have established already there is absolutely nothing worth watching these days (apart from True Blood). Well I have established that since it does feel like I’m talking to myself here.
Be as it may I did find something to keep me occupied (for a bit at least). It is a BBC crime series State of Play.
Yes I know you must be thinking of State of Play the movie, but the movie was actually based on the series.
Without giving too much away it does start off innocently enough – a journalist from The Herald Cal McCaffrey (played by John Simm of Life on Mars fame) starts investigating what seems to be a drug related murder. Then an MP’s researcher chucks herself under the Tube. But we learn soon enough that the two incidents are actually related and the story is far too more complicated (and intriguing) then it seemed in the beginning.
Series was written by Paul Abbott (for his first attempt at a thriller this was really excellent work), the cast includes a number of prominent British actors – such as David Morrissey, Bill Nighty, Kelly Macdonald and my personal favorite Philip Glenister and they all did a superb job.
Although I am half way through it (there were only 6 one hour episodes) it has just the right amount of cliffhangers, fast paced action and connect-the-dots moments to keep me eager for more.
I haven’t seen State of Play the movie so I cannot really tell how much did they stick to the original but I am once again reminded why I like BBC series so much – they are bloody good!
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