Drugland: Crock or rock?

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Only managed to get through this grossly Nathan Barley-ish faux-liberal shitfest by imagining everyone involved was a BBC employee. But what about those less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me?

― henry miller, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Never mind all that, wasn't "Shameless" great?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

I saw the end. It made me want to become a dealer.

Seriously though, they didn't really say anything new did they?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

gotta love those re-enactments of "exclusive" dinner parties. those bits had to be a deterrent for anyone interested in trying cocaine.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

i guess it had interest as a portrait of the incredibly sad and delusional life most dealers really lead. but the programme was full of shit -- it flat-out denied that drug dealing had any relation to violent crime! this assiduously 'nonjudgemental' piece thus made all sorts of unspoken judgements about the victims.

― henry miller, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

It was as good tonight as it was rubbish last night.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Difficult choice from the BBC tonight, 'Drunk and Dangerous: Binge Drinking' or 'Drugland', both at 9pm. What were they thinking?

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 6 January 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah, much better. horrible, really, just fucking bleak. made me think of 'my summer of love', weirdly, the way paddy considine is, the show kind of 'explained' that.

― henry miller, Thursday, 6 January 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

STOP PRESS: 'Binge Drinking' postponed for the second time, replaced by 'The Killer Waves'.

I hope the BBC gives Sarah O'Connell more programme-making opportunities. You can tell I was impressed, I looked up her name.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Quite poor again last night, like an extended episode of 'Club Reps' with added cowardly undercover reporter tosh. However, the Ibiza policemen were the funniest thing I've seen for quite a while.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

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