The first episode of Crime Story was highly dramatised. Wallpaper Warrior very much keeps towards the trEddie Horner joined a number of colleagues who went on strike, when their employer decided to reduce their wages, the men were all sacked. Eddie teamed up with Paul Standen, the pair decide to commit a series of robberies.
Talking Pictures doesn't half transmit some interesting content, I'd never heard of this show before, from what I can gather, they're dramatisations of real life crimes, almost like an updated in suspicious circumstances.
It's very dry, feels quite factual, it feels like a story from a much earlier time, interesting, an snapshot of how horrendous life was for many people under Thatcher's Tory Government, a time where many had nothing.
Very much Eddie Horner's story, with full focus on him, the entire process, the decline, details of the strike that caused him to lose his job, the bad company he fell in, in the shape of Paul Standen, and the tragedy that followed.
6/10.