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About Bernadette Angell

After cutting her journalistic teeth in Boston USA, Bernadette met and married an Englishman, whom she followed back to London. Two decades and three children later, they divorced. She now occupies herself as a freelance writer (credits include television soaps and radio plays) and occasional amateur gardener. More Posts

Fake or fortune

I have enjoyed this series now returning to our screens every Sunday. Despite its flaws, the main one being the conversations in front of camera are very contrived, it’s always an enjoyable view. Last Sunday’s episode especially so. It featured a Henry Moore sketch which finished up in the [...]

August 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Bridge

The Bridge had its eighth  and final episode last Friday.  Final is the word as the ending made it clear that sadly we have heard and seen the last  of “Saga Noren, Lanskrim Malmo “ ( Malmo CID) as she answers the phone .  Never mind the unraveling of the criminal drama there was always [...]

July 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

A Very English Scandal/The Bridge

I enjoyed all three episodes of the A Very English Scandal. Not only did the cast act with great authority they bore a close resemblance physically to the characters they played. Hugh Grant had all the arrogant jauntiness of Jeremy Thorpe but revealed subtly also how in a right corner he lost his [...]

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Bridge

Few years ago at a symposium on Scandi Noir I saw a remarkable thing. Sonia Helin the star of The Bridge as Saga, the dysfunctional police inspector from Malmo, was doing a session in the afternoon. An admirer anxious to get the full benefit sat himself in the centre of the front row and clearly [...]

May 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Babylon Berlin

SKY ATLANTIC’S Berlin Babylon come to an end last night and I was not much the wiser how the various plot threads tied up. This was because even before the final credits the next series was being promoted. Central character Inspector Rath is not returning to Cologne, he had destroyed the porno [...]

November 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Babylon Berlin

One of the features of modern criminal drama has been the quality series from mainland Europe. The Killing  started a whole new genre of Scanda Noir and The Spiral and Montalbano proved popular and watchable too. I have now watched 4 episodes of Babylon Berlin, a joint-production of German [...]

November 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Riviera

They say the future of film production does not lie with the studios nor the massive film companies like Sony and Fox but with the networks. In the case of The Sopranos, Mad Men, the production values have produced ground-breaking television and Scandinavian noir has resulted in the The Killing and [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Reunion

It’s good to hear The Reunion back on the air, Sundays at 11-15, repeated Friday at 9.00. For those who do not know the format Sue McGregor, the best female broadcaster the BBC has ever produced, gathers together a group reunited to recall some momentous event: a tragedy, launch or day of [...]

April 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

SSGB

Sunday night was the final episode of SSGB and the series has been well received. The plot line is complex if not convoluted with many paths off it: the removal out of occupied Britain of nuclear research and the flight of the ageing infirm King George. This was in the context of 3 groups, the [...]

March 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

SSGB

Often it is more accurate to review a new series after the second or third episode so I held back till I watched last Sunday’s second part of SSGB. The story is that the Nazis won the Battle of Britain, Churchill was executed and there was Nazi Occupation. This is well tramelled territory. In [...]

February 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

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