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Did anyone watch the Adam Curtis series on Sun nights/BBC2/9pm?

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Pruni · 26/03/2007 10:20

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MrsCurly · 27/03/2007 20:24

It absolutely blew me away. Like the other series he's made.

My only regret is that it was so dense I wished I'd taped it so I could watch it again.

Hopefully it will be repeated.

I think it's great that the BBC will let him make a polemic like this. There is nothing at all like it.

And the archive is amazing.

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Pruni · 27/03/2007 22:41

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MrsCurly · 28/03/2007 19:33

I'm sure they released a DVD version of The Power of Nightmares. Maybe check Amazon.

What really blew me away was the historical perspective. Things you knew, or half knew, or didn't really know at all, put together. And at the end of the third part on Sunday when he finally got to Iraq, and in five minutes completely encapsulated everything that had happened and gone wrong, with such insight and intelligence. It all made such depressing sense. Instead of being news report after news report with no perspective or insightful analysis.

There should be more like this. Even if you disagree it is so stimulating.

I think the BBC come unstuck sometimes by trying to be impartial all the time. Sometimes you need strong opinion like this.

Did you see The Mayfair Set? It's the only one I haven't seen.

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Pruni · 28/03/2007 19:38

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Marina · 28/03/2007 19:41

I was impressed with the free hand he was given. I have History O Level and a supposed interest in current affairs and I had barely heard of Frantz Fanon
Dh watched The Power of Nightmares, we both missed The Mayfair Set.
It was the BBC at its very best, I agree.
As you say MrsCurly, it joined strands of history/politics up and made sense of them.

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MrsCurly · 28/03/2007 19:58

Why are we the only, now, three on this thread? Well it reminds me of something else I found myself thinking after the programme on Sunday. That it was hard work to watch, you havedto really concentrate, and there is very, very little other TV like that.

I watch a lot of TV and a lot of rubbish. I even (ssshhhhh) work in TV. And all of it I watch very passively, sit on sofa, let it all wash over me. But I really had to concentrate with this and at the beginning of the first part of this series I found myself almost resenting having to concentrate - was knackered, wanted to read Sunday papers / tidy up etc, at the same time.

It was quite a different experience of TV watching. And very instructive, and it really made me sit up and listen