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Nightsleeper (BBC iPlayer) - 6 episodes of shite

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Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk

By Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk, 1727045759

SEMI SPOILER ALERT / WARNING ⚠️ : If you absolutely LOATHE anything 'modern Doctor Who' (last decade or so) 

...then you are HIGHLY LIKELY to absolutely hate this tripe too!


(Stupidly) - I reeled off 3 or 4 episodes via iPlayer - willing that (maybe) some of it was bound to get better, less cliché acting style and less annoying with all the ususal BBC lefty stereotypes, that were starting to appear more and more.

NO !! 😞 (like the train in question) it was going to drag everyone along for 6 painful episodes, complete with unsubtle and cringe political points being made / scored and more. 

Like a bingo card, you could tick off making sure all the politically 'correct' boxes were ticked off re: those playing the parts (especially those in most powerful positions). Bingo! FULL HOUSE (apart from being a bit 'camp-lite' and non trans inclusive, with no Brexit references, but to be fair I might have been somewhere? 😁

It became more and more irritating with every episode, the plot and techno jargon nonsense (some which DID make sense mixed with utter nonsnse that wasn't plausible,combined with + 'why wasn't this tried a lot earlier?' stuff / why don't they do this / that. 

So by the start of the last episode I had enough (now feeling cheated out of the many hours I wasn't going to get back, albeit they were at least free of adverts!)

More utter bollox served up for my BBC licence fee, which is more farce than fair, for every wokey year that goes by.

At this juncture (or should that be signal points junction?  🤣🤣) ... I shouted out to my son and daughter to please tell me that my radar was still spot on and that their Googling would tell me that the Director of this tripe affair ... worked on Doctor Who.

Surprise surprise (NOT!!) - Yep, my son informs me the director (or one of two at least) was indeed Jamie Magnus Stone. Googling a bit more about this Doctor Who director, enlightend me to his nepo status too (grandson of Magnus Magnusson + son of Sally Magnusson).

PLEASE - 🙏 🙏 If you are still tempted / intrigued to watch this 6 parter ... Don't say I didn't warn you !! 😆🤣😭

😇😇


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Unfocussed Mike said, 1727046321

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

:-P

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B17fan said, 1727046465

Hooray! For once I gave up after one episode rather than wasting more of my life.

KernowPhoto said, 1727046472

Well I quite liked it - even if the 6hrs of TV was considerably longer then the Glasgow-London journey itself 

Mercia Storm said, 1727046844

Unfocussed Mike 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said, 1727047100

"and now to our next contestant" ...

Your name?

Jamie Magnus Stone

And your specialist subject?

"Being a cog in the machine to make a once great broadcaster, a patronising and virtue-signalling empty vessel"

Your two minutes ... (if only!!) ...

😂🙈🙉


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Unfocussed Mike said, 1727047737

Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said

"and now to our next contestant" ...

Your name?

Jamie Magnus Stone

And your specialist subject?

"Being a cog in the machine to make a once great broadcaster, a patronising and virtue-signalling empty vessel"

Your two minutes (if only!!) ...

😂🙈🙉

Except he doesn't work for the BBC. For the Doctor Who stuff he may have been contracted by the BBC-- some of those episodes must have been under BBC Wales. But he'd have been a freelancer, not an employee.

For Nightsleeper he'd have been employed by Euston Films.

It's hardly "cog in the machine" stuff. And he'd won a series of BAFTAs before any of that, so again, it's not really "nepo".

He's just following in a family tradition in the broadest sense (arts and culture). This happens in families.

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Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said, 1727047748

Unfocussed Mike said

Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said

"and now to our next contestant" ...

Your name?

Jamie Magnus Stone

And your specialist subject?

"Being a cog in the machine to make a once great broadcaster, a patronising and virtue-signalling empty vessel"

Your two minutes (if only!!) ...

😂🙈🙉

Except he doesn't work for the BBC. 


Maybe not directly, but the BBC have served up many Doctor Who episodes that he's had his stamp on.

Unfocussed Mike said, 1727048236

Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said

Unfocussed Mike said

Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said

"and now to our next contestant" ...

Your name?

Jamie Magnus Stone

And your specialist subject?

"Being a cog in the machine to make a once great broadcaster, a patronising and virtue-signalling empty vessel"

Your two minutes (if only!!) ...

😂🙈🙉

Except he doesn't work for the BBC. 


Maybe not directly, but the BBC have served up many Doctor Who episodes that he's had his stamp on.

A dozen, or so, yes. He was contracted I guess.

He was already an award-winning director who studied his subject academically. Also appears to be a pretty talented animator. He's done the work.

The "nepo" assertion is pretty roundly unfair. Professions tend to run in families, don't they? 


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Aardvark🎯VonEssfolk said, 1727048305

Maybe that was unfair.

I am not familiar with him to be fair ... but I am afraid his Doctor Who association has triggered me sufficiently 🤣😞

DM Photos said, 1727050749

The BBC is all shite. Too much brainwashing and agendas.

Gothic Image said, 1727050994

Now I really need to watch it and see! :-)

Bergman Greenstreet said, 1727062578

For those wishing for a more sedate and cerebral train drama from the BBC I recommend "Caught on a Train" 1980, starring Peggy Ashcroft and Michael Kitchen.

RHM.Photo said, 1727071890

This rant made me enjoy it even more than I already had. And no, I hadn’t worked out who the baddy was until the last episode.

ClickMore 📷 said, 1727072811

I lasted 20 minutes but that is good compared to all the terribly acted and awful scripts of Channel 5 crime dramas.

Gothic Image said, 1727077847

The reviews online seem to agree with the OP!

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