By Jack Phillips
If someone offered me a job as an investigative journalist at the Yorkshire post right now I would snap their hands off. If it was 1974 then I would not be quite so hasty.
After watching Channel 4’s adaptations of Red Riding, a trilogy of novels by David Peace, it really did set an eerie tone for the life of journalist Eddie Dunford played by Andrew Garfield. The young Yorkshire Post reporter is set to investigate the story of young children going missing and presumed dead.
One of the young children’s bodies is found on the construction site of local businessman John Dawson, played by Sean Bean, who is discovered to be bribing police for planning permission for the site.
A complex plot ensues, involving one of the missing child’s mothers, Paula Garland, played by Rebecca Hall, resulting in many sexual encounters between Dunford and her. Dream sequences and plenty of graphic violence play the story along strongly and a twisted storyline involving Paula and Dawson adds more tension between him and Dunford.
The year of 1974 looks like an uber cool era to live and work in, if not also a dangerous one. Dunford and the rest of the cast are constantly smoking, even during sex, and the journalists flared trousers will be in next month’s FHM as must have fashion items, reminiscent of Life on Mars.
The violent scenes are intense to watch and don’t leave much to imagination but at almost two hours long it needs two sittings to watch the whole episode which makes it difficult to keep up to track with the intricate plot. The programme takes quite a long time to kick in but once it starts the corrupt police force shines through with shocking revelations and crooked businessman Dawson and his ‘mobsters’ highlight the power of the rich at the time.
A definite recommendation for young budding journalists who want an exciting story with love, crime and violence mixed into one, but one to catch on the internet rather than two hours in front of the TV.
The year of 1974 looks like an uber cool era to live and work in, if not also a dangerous one. Dunford and the rest of the cast are constantly smoking, even during sex, and the journalists flared trousers will be in next month’s FHM as must have fashion items, reminiscent of Life on Mars.
The violent scenes are intense to watch and don’t leave much to imagination but at almost two hours long it needs two sittings to watch the whole episode which makes it difficult to keep up to track with the intricate plot. The programme takes quite a long time to kick in but once it starts the corrupt police force shines through with shocking revelations and crooked businessman Dawson and his ‘mobsters’ highlight the power of the rich at the time.
A definite recommendation for young budding journalists who want an exciting story with love, crime and violence mixed into one, but one to catch on the internet rather than two hours in front of the TV.
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