A mistake has been been made during the course of the investigation, and Thomas is targeted as a scapegoat.A mistake has been been made during the course of the investigation, and Thomas is targeted as a scapegoat.A mistake has been been made during the course of the investigation, and Thomas is targeted as a scapegoat.
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A good start to a new season and a great cast
I'm not surprised to see this belaboured as PC-driven unconvincing nonsense. To me, it presents a story of a difficult subject tactfully told. I know that some of my friends are gay or lesbian - some may be trans. But it is not my right to pry into that, AND I DO NOT CARE! - they are my friends; everyone has a right to live their lives as seems good to them. Oscar Wilde was imprisoned, and Alan Turing took his own life for having characteristics not in keeping with the culture of their time. Seventy years after Turing, in some groups of society social criteria have changed, but others remain back in the time of Edward II. So, it will only take 700 years for the tail to catch up with the current front-runners. I feel a bit depressed, but thanks to the Silent Witness team for bringing this story forward. A second thread in my thoughts is the issue of the attack on Chamberlain and the Lyle team by an unscrupulous and ambitious DCI Cramer, and the way he expected unswerving support in his scheme from DI Murphy. From the perspective of June 2020, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a city in which I spent a very happy time in school, I can see only George Floyd (who should not be dead) and Martin Gugino (who is fortunately not dead as I write this). These guys have suffered from the actions of police (whether or not these actions were questionable) and we see the "blue wall" against any enquiry into their actions, with the entire Buffalo ERT resigning (although not from the police force, so they still keep their salary and pension!). There's a thought - is it time to have a completely international ethical review of police forces? If I go from one country to another, might I not - as consequence of my human rights - expect the same legal protections in both? Then the last thread in my thoughts is that when I read reviews in IMDb I really do not want to find attacks on the personal abilities of people involved - particularly that someone is a bad actor. When someone appears as a character in a performance, that whole character is the outcome of at least four entities - the actor, the writing team, the director, the makeup team, not to mention the sound engineer, balancing the sound, oh, and of course the lighting team, and probably a bunch of others I'm not sufficiently part of the industry to know about. To say that someone is not a good actor requires that you have seen all their performances, under all directors, from all writers (etc). And to say that you're "not insulting someone as an actor but that they're good at stand-up" sounds pretty intended as insulting to me. In the particular case of Liz Carr as an actor in Silent Witness, she makes me laugh, she makes me cry, and she seems to me to have a particular chemistry with the other members of the cast. For me, she's a good fit and I look forward to many more seasons with her as a principal member of the cast. (Oh, for God's sake, just watch her eyes!)
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- Jun 6, 2020
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