Awful
Well that's an hour and twenty minutes of my life I won't get back. They should never have made that 10 year reunion program.
Well that's an hour and twenty minutes of my life I won't get back. They should never have made that 10 year reunion program.
Absolutley agree, just said exactly the same on the post before about it starting just under an hour ago.
So so dissapointed. Over the top, naff acting. Gutted, truly gutted!
Oh bite me you big moaners. You guys were gonna' complain regardless of how good or bad this episode was because you were weighing it up against old episodes, which this one will never compare to because of the nostalgia value.
Where would you like to be bitten?
shareOvertired are we?
It's my opinion and I stand by it. I was never going to moan about it anyway, I would not have even come on the baord if I wasn't so dissapointed. You don't agree, fine.
I just felt it didn't live up to MY expectations, I was not comparing it to other episodes. I just thought it was a little too over the top. Anita was a really bad actress in this special episode as was Jack Davenport. Dnaiella Nardina as usual cstole the show, even though her character is now a money old tart!
I must admit, nice ending though
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Dear oh dear, the standard of criticism on here really hasn't lived up to my expectations. I mean, "That's one hour and twenty minutes of my life I won't get back" is just so predictable. Nowhere near as good as the standard of criticism back in 1997.
shareI liked it, although andrew lincoln and jack davenport carried it much like the original series
"Hell is hot, that's never been disputed by anybody"
I thought it was ok but i think my expectations were far too high
shareDidn't notice this was on until tonight... Expectations not too high and I enjoyed it quite a lot.
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I agree... TL used to be slow... stories lasted episodes and in this we have 3 major plotlines in 80 minutes! (not to mention fake ODs, child suffocation and horse falls)
Too much, too fast. I bet theres a good extra 30 minutes for the DVD
"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't"
it was great, made me want to see another series. the characters were just as good and just as screwed up as ten years ago. it showed who i was and who my friends were in 1996 and now it's doing the same thing with a bit of pathos for who we are now. can't ask for anything else for a reunion show really.
sharePersonally, I think it picked up the last 20 minutes. I found myself thouraghly enjoying it toward the end.
As the stories have unravelled and become clearer and a little less like a teenager's random thoughts splashed out all over a bit of paper, it's actually become a little more more entertaining and a lot more staisfying in terms of the genereal charcter development, which, lets face it, was always going to be inevitablely mundane.
The biggest problem I had with the production was that it was a little too smooth and not nearly as gritty or as real as it was 10 years ago. Plus, the acting, due probably to the fact that they are no longer a group of hungry young starlets with little to lose and everything to prove was very, very stale. The shining light of the whole programme was, as I pretty much expected, Daniela Nardini. The rest of the cast, to me, seemed to be going through the motions, particularly Jack Davenport, who seems to have been forever brought down by the horrifyingly bad attempt at a sitcom that was coupling.
Meh,'twas OK, it's just simply not as relevant as it once was, and life, as a midddle aged being, is even more mundane and more tedious than life as a twentysomething.
"Atlantis to interzone..."
I quite enjoyed +10, I think Ferdy should have not been killed off. There should have been some mention of Milly punching Rachel, Miles divorcing Francessa,Egg's Cafe, Keria & Joe. I know its ten years on but it could have mentioned stuff from series 2. It did live up to my expectations I'm just glad that I was 6 when This life was first aired and I watched the repeats and just had to wait weeks rather than ten years to see what happened next. I thought at the end that Miles and Anna would have gone off together travelling.
shareThat was pretty much my reaction and a major downside of bringing Amy Jenkins to write it, stuck in Season one.
Here's a review I put up somewhere else:
Good things:
How well the lads have aged
Anna's dress sense.
The "you've got to be *beep* kidding me" scene.
Turkey baster? Turkey baster.
Miles is a *beep*
Bad things:
They completely ignored any of the plots from the second season, which was what made the original series so successful. No mention of Milly's affair, the fact that Miles had made his peace with Ferdy and Warren. Ferdy was far better suited to Lenny which made his retrospective relationship with Warren seem contrived.
The "I wrote a book about what happened between us" was executed far better in Before Sunset
The documentary aspect was handled clumsily and to no real effect.
Andrew Lincoln kept flipping into his voiceover received pronunciation rather than the Manc accent he was supposed to have.
Would Anna still have been exactly the same after AA? I can't see it myself. Bless her, she's not aged well. She can't handle relationships but thinks she'd be a good mother? New age bollocks.
The legal profession was such an important part of the show, I find it hard to believe that they would only leave one of them in it, out of the three remaining lawyer characters.
They were all a bit too rich and "successful" surely the whole point of disenfranchised Gen Xers is that some of them don't make it. In this regard, Clerks II nailed it far more realistically. Egg's character was supposed to be a bit of a *beep* up, but one that had found his niche. Turning him into Jamie Oliver author just made a loveable guy an *beep* with no sense of humour.
The running problem throughout it was that Amy Jenkins was brought on as the writer. Bless her for creating hte programme, but it was as if she could have written it after the first year, rather than the second. Kind of like Dawsons Creek where Kevin Williamson tries to put all the plotlines right, but in the end it feels like a betrayal of what people actually liked about the show, the climaxes and the continuity of the relationships.
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Well I disagree. I loved it when it first aired and hearing about this special made me all quivery with excitment and for me it didn't disappoint. Makes me want to watch a whole new series of it.
I hate to say this but this place is getting to me. I think I'm getting the fear.
Things I didn't like
The smooth camera
Miles being funny instead of arrogant
Not explaining Ferdys death
THE FACT YOU SEE ANNA IN COURT AS A BARRISTER!
I liked the fact you never saw any of them doing their job.
I'm gutted
You forget that orginally This Life was the first programme to use the device of characters speaking directly to camera in the analyst's office, airing their private thoughts to an unseen analayst.
The video diaries were a way of updating this whilst also being a comment on today's obsession with reality tv...
"God saved me from drowning... then kicked me to death on the beach."
I liked it, I would have prefered more news about what happened after the party but thought it was generally well done.
I suppose a fifty part spin off featuring Anna is out of the question?
Awful? I was gonna be a clever dick and type out loads of other words that also mean awful to emphasise my dissapointment with this programme. However I will just let u type in thesarus in google the type in the word awful in the thesarus. On eof the worst dramas I have ever seen ( and I loved the series)
sharehow on earth did that script get approved? there were so many very obvious things wrong with it.
v disappointing
That's a shame, i *loved* it!!!!
"God saved me from drowning... then kicked me to death on the beach."