[Afamilyatwar-list] Sam: Series 1

[Scott Filderman]

Well, it’s rather like watching a DH Lawrence novel come alive. Sons and Lovers and all that.
I don’t want to be read as making light of anything because I believe Mr. Finch wrote it in a crucible of personal pain and knowledge, and that accounts for the series’ accuracy and detail. And, for what it’s worth, I appreciate the absence of music (although John McCabe’s piping trumpet and flute theme does stay in the head), not turning “real life” into a literal melodrama.
One stunning aspect is that several of the lead actors died before old age: Alethea Charlton, James Hazeldine, Mark McManus, Ray Smith, John Price (among those I’ve so far seen).
It’s been a truism for well over 50 years: the very best American television is...British!
Please take us back...we honestly don’t know how to behave ourselves!




On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 2:03 PM, Karen Berridge via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:

Yep Sam is fabulous! I envy you as I’ve already seen it but looking forward to a repeat viewing now I’m newly retired!
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Subject: [Afamilyatwar-list] Sam: Series 1 Even more wonderful than AFAW (have to keep these posts group-relevant)!
As far as my American ear can tell, everybody has the proper accent (at least more consistently than the AFAW cast). And the casting is just as eloquent: Michael Goodliffe IS Jack Barraclough (like John McKelvey IS Sefton), and the females are uniformly superb, especially Mona Bruce.
There is so much to absorb sociologically and humanly. Folk pressures (gypsies bringing bad luck); political pressures (Means Tests); social pressures (unwed parents); human pressures (desertion, death, family). All this in 39 densely packed episodes.
Fewer boom shadows and hanging microphones!
Really a wonderful achievement; I can see When the Boat Comes In got its mooring in Sam. Imitation IS the sincerest form of ... television.
Right! You lot go out then and get your DVDs!  You’ll be gobsmacked! Ay!

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