Definitely. Best tv for a while.
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New season of Black Mirror out. First episode didn’t go how I thought it would :)
I rarely watch telly, but The Virtues which completed on C4 last night was terrific, if harrowing, viewing. Stephen Meadows is a genius, as is Russell T Davies, proven by Years and Years which is cooking up nicely.
And, lest i forget, FUUCK OFF MURDOCH
Shane Meadows, my error. I got confused with a Brookside scriptwriter.
Stephen Graham was Billy Bremner in the film of David Peace's part-imagined Clough biog The Damned United, so he doesn't always play a deranged violent psychopath scarred by his background - oh, hang on....
He was the investigating copper in the docu-drama where that young Everton supporting kid was shot by some feral youths.
You're right about a tendency to cast him in specific roles though- he was brilliant in John McGovern's The Street.
Along with This is England, that was his best part. He had minor non entity part in the film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
He also played Baby Face Nelson in a ****e film and Dillinger.
Shane Meadows best film was his second, A Room for Romeo Brass where Paddy Considine in his first film plays the village idiot/psychopath.