Touching Evil (UK)
Dec. 28th, 2009 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2Just finished watching this amazing series. I am just gobsmacked by it - utterly dark and near nihilistic finish to it all. Every character is just about demolished by the final episode - no happy ending here!
Compared to the US version, it is far more destructive and offers no glimpse of the positivity of that version. The lead actors are very different too - there's little to no humour here and no close relationship like the Branca/Creegan dynamic.
That said, I love both series but for different reasons, curiously for exactly that opposing dynamic between the two: the unrelenting grimness of the UK version and the ability to find the light in between from the US version. Two damned fine pieces of work regardless!
Compared to the US version, it is far more destructive and offers no glimpse of the positivity of that version. The lead actors are very different too - there's little to no humour here and no close relationship like the Branca/Creegan dynamic.
That said, I love both series but for different reasons, curiously for exactly that opposing dynamic between the two: the unrelenting grimness of the UK version and the ability to find the light in between from the US version. Two damned fine pieces of work regardless!
