Over at MSN today: I've reviewed the premiere of Channel 4's four-part drama SOUTHCLIFFE about an English market town struggling in the aftermath of a spree killing...
Screenwriter Tony Grisoni was behind Channel 4's award-winning Red Riding trilogy, and Southcliffe brings the same beauteous bleakness back to our TV screens -- this time courtesy of US director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). His tale of a lonely fantasist with a gun obsession who snaps thanks to a combination of stress (nursing his bedridden mother) and humiliation (his fantasy of being ex-SAS is exposed by a friend's army vet uncle), has clearly taken a few cues from real-life tragedies.
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