My fascination with Welsh Noir started with Hinterland, merely has just gone to a new level with Blindside.
Yes, I was drawn into the darkness of Hidden. Keeping Faith teetered just to the right side of preposterous, with overuse of pop video style lingering to music over the attractive female lead. Requiem was super creepy, folk horror. 35 Diwrnod is OK, but limited by its modest budget and cast. Bang seemed to reconcile all of these shortcomings and make a powerful virtue of each one, with much use of a popular technique of location centred drama - long location shots, and very smart utilise of music.
Like I said when Hinterland broke through with its have on the Scandi noir set up upward - cop outsider with demons - the strongest bandage member in a heck of a potent field was the mural of Ceredigion, and the dark secrets of Aberystwyth. They also concluded up smothering the plot and compensating for a drift into borderline cod. Merely similar in Subconscious, the stark survival of the Welsh working class was an ever nowadays, if a little on the hopeless side.
Bang had all of this and more. The backdrop being Port Talbot, warts, beaches, steelworks, motorways and all. It didn't pull a single punch in the portrayal of the daily stuff of a police force crush, following a spree of gun crimes in Series Ane and a savage killer on the loose in Series Two. But though life at times for a whole load of characters was unremittingly tough, it didn't seem equally universally grim and hopeless every bit Hidden, or have the stolen idyll of Keeping Religion. Life is hard in this earth of loan sharks, low wages, drugs, domestic violence,crime and disuse. Yet for all that, there are characters who however bring warmth and joy, role barrack and small tender moments of friendship and family life. Even poor old Sam Jenkins, bullied, friendless and prosecuted manages to take happiness and a sense of humor in his grasp. I say this having just wrapped up a stunning conclusion to the 6 part second run, which certainly didn't cue things upwards for happy always afters.
In that location lingers also the possibility of justice not being served. It's possible that bullies, murderers and rapists might break an unwritten dominion of TV drama and get away with it. Bang also has an earthier menace to it, human-made malignancy, rather than an ethereal lingering evil of the kind nosotros saw so profoundly in Requiem, and hinted at from fourth dimension to fourth dimension in both Hidden and Hinterland, where there's e'er a hint of the weird and the eerie. Hopefully at that place are no spoilers here, and this is enough of a recommendation. Only watch it, absorb yourself in information technology and try non to accept nightmares. The cast are (mostly) tight and the creator Roger Williams' script sparkles with bilingual delights. But in Catrin Stewart every bit Gina, and Jacob Ifan every bit Sam, you have two performances that would earn a BAFTA, or equivalent, in any language.
A final idea though, did nobody intendance what happened to creepy Russell?
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