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Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:32 / 22.03.04

Did anyone watch all of this? The first two episodes are fifty minutes and shown back-to-back last Sunday, the third and final part is one hour forty and, despite the fact that James the Sixth is Mary Queen of Scots son there is no effort to link the final episode to the first two. It's as though Jimmy McGovern wrote James story, then wrote the Mary story at a completely different time and then accidentally sent them to his agent at the same time so the latter thought it was one proposal.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:48 / 22.03.04

I only saw the last part, but that was worth it if only for the climax, during which Robert Carlyle manages to ram home the "do you see?" contemporary resonance purely by duplicating George W Bush's speech patterns, to a scarily accurate degree, albeit with a bizarre Scottish-but-not-as-we-know-it accent.

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