There are no problems with period settings, direction, cast: it all comes down to the script. I find that the writer was also one of the executive producers, which explains a lot: presumably there was no-one to say, this is just awful, do it again.
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It is a shame. All the ingredients seem right - good cast, interesting subject - but it doesn't mix in well. The pacing I agree is off. It is more than that though. I can't see it getting renewed. I don't know if it was planned as just a mini series?
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Ha I like that Andrew! I am disappointed as the Beeb has put some great drama on this year and I particularly like Romola Garai in The Crimson Petal. It just seems too slow. Slow works in things like The Shadow Line and many films I've seen such as 21 Grams and films of those ilk so why not here I wonder? Burn Gorman keeps popping up in stuff and I am beginning to quite like him.
shareThat git got his end away with Anna Chancellor - THE BASTARD!
It was the poorest episode yet so now I'm watching it to see if they dare hint that Romola Garai's character is as duplicitous a careerist sh.i.tehouse as any of them, that Anna chancellor's character is a real feminist and that the dim working class woman is actually the real spy from Six and that the rest of Six are of the Cambridge variety.
The production is like COMbbc, it doesn't have the courage of its convictions (other than taking the money, that is).
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
I've got the opposite view, the first epsiode was like the show they were producing, trying find its feet and the performers settling in.
After all the hype about this being a British Mad Men I was pleasantly surprised that it is unravelling as a shadowy cold war esponiage thriller.