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The Sky Studios production "Sweetpea"...such crass propaganda...

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 30, 2024, 2:31 am

Over the past couple of nights I have been enjoying a rather silly but entertaining dark comedy called "Sweetpea" (2024), about a young lady with "issues", who becomes a killer.
Was enjoying it until tonight that is, when after the lady has kidnapped and imprisoned her next potential victim, we get this little gem from the killer to her captive:

"Everyone thinks you are fucking lovely, that you've got this fucking lovely life, but actually you don't, do you? and you're not, you're awful.
You ruin lives, Julia. You're like cancer, or climate change, or Russia.
Yes, the world would be a better place without you, except at least with Russia, everyone knows what a psycho Putin is, no one even knows about you..."

Subtle, eh?
Well, that's the end of that series for me, was just getting into it too!

Did that revolting old spook David Cornwell crawl out of his grave to write that script?

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 30, 2024, 3:50 am, in reply to "The Sky Studios production "Sweetpea"...such crass propaganda..."

Or William Boyd perhaps?

Re: Did that revolting old spook David Cornwell crawl out of his grave to write that script?

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 30, 2024, 4:13 pm, in reply to "Did that revolting old spook David Cornwell crawl out of his grave to write that script?"

What got me was the sheer ham fistedness of these comments!
As I mentioned, the series is basically a dark comedy, light entertainment kinda thing and then all of a sudden, right out of left field, we get how Russia ruins lives and how "everyone knows what a psycho Putin is."
Talk about shoehorning something in!

The writer is Kirstie Swain...pretty popular by all accounts...I wonder why!

quote:
Kirstie is a BAFTA nominated, Glasgow dwelling, proudly Scottish screenwriter. She is currently show-running greenlit drama series SWEET PEA (See-Saw/Sky) which is an adaptation of C J Skuse’s popular novel, and is due to start filming later this year.
This summer the BBC commissioned pilot for her original series LADYBABY (Kudos) went into production.
Kirstie wrote all six episodes of PURE for Channel 4 (produced by Drama Republic), which aired in the UK in January 2019 and was released on HBO Max in the US in August this year. In 2019 PURE was nominated for two Scottish BAFTAS including Best Drama Series and Best Writer. Kirstie was a Consulting Producer and wrote an episode of Vicky Jones’s RUN (Sky/HBO), starring Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever.
Kirstie won the 2013 Frank Deasy Award for new writing and in the same year was selected for the Bush/Kudos Initiative and Broadcast Magazine's Hotshots. She is also a graduate of the 2012 BBC Writers Academy where she wrote episodes of 3
continuing drama series.

Re: Did that revolting old spook David Cornwell crawl out of his grave to write that script?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 30, 2024, 11:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Did that revolting old spook David Cornwell crawl out of his grave to write that script?"

What subliterate tossah wrote the blurb?

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