Take a trip to Obsessed With Film, where I've reviewed the first episode of Sky1's four-part drama MAD DOGS, starring Philip Glenister, John Simm, Marc Warren and Ben Chaplin. There's sun, sea, sand, and a gunman wearing a Tony Blair mask. Are you up for the holiday from hell?
Sky's newfound commitment to original drama continues with the sun-kissed thriller Mad Dogs, where four middle-aged friends -— Woody (Max Beesley), Quinn (Philip Glenister), Baxter (John Simm) and Rick (Marc Warren) -— fly out to Majorca to spend a week at their mutual pal Alvo's (Ben Chaplin) luxurious villa, at his invitation, to get reacquainted and relive their youth. A simple setup for a ribald comedy-drama about midlife crisis, but Mad Dogs has more sinister and surreal things playing on its mind. Continue reading...
