Oh dear, the BBC has upset bourgeois sentimentalities, again.
The Guardian reports:
The BBC’s new primetime drama, Gunpowder, was described as unnecessarily gruesome and brutal over graphic scenes of violence, which aired minutes after the watershed on Saturday night.
The three-part series chronicles the plot to blow up the House of Lords in 1605, with Game of Thrones star Kit Harington playing his ancestor Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the plot.
The opening episode contained close-up scenes of a young priest being hung, drawn and quartered and a woman stripped naked before being crushed to death by a stone slab, prompting complaints from viewers.
I have to agree that some of the footage was unnecessarily gruesome, adding little to the development of the plot. I was rather more shocked by the shoddy acting. Is it unreasonable to expect Harington to deploy more than three facial expressions - angry, sad and befuddled appear to be the limit of his thespian range. And at an alleged mere 5 ft 8 inches, he is on the short side for the part.
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