Bonekickers. Why??

[retiredgoth]

.....I rarely watch tv. Maybe 3 or four hours a week. When I do watch, it is usually quality light BBC drama. Dr Who, or Life on Mars perhaps...

....so when I noted that the series "Bonekickers" was produced by Ashley Pharaoh (who was involved in Life on Mars and the follow up 1981 thingy) I earmarked it. The fact that it was set in Bath, just down the road, was an added interest.

.....so I watched one.

I am now investigating the possibility of taking the BBC to court for depriving me of an hour of my life that can never be reclaimed....

...and I am sure I would have won, but for the fact that I went back and watched a second, incredulous that anything could be so strikingly awful.

Clunking, obvious plot twists, declaimed by one character to another repeatedly lest we miss them (it would be easier, and preferable, to hold up a cue board instead with the plot clues whilst the entire cast gave a knowing wink).

..... I initially thought one episode (about a saintly black presidential candidate, who somehow ends up in a gun battle on Lundy. Don't ask) might have been penned by the Barack Obama campaign team. Except that I think they would baulk at anything so gut wrenchingly mawkish.

....as for this week's tosh involving Joan of Arc and a WW1 tank.... well. Words fail me.

So that is two hours I am owed by the BBC. Time that I could have spent in a more productive fashion (like, for example, curling into a foetal ball and emitting low moans)

[retiredgoth]

Just thought I would answer my own post.

....still think it is appalling rubbish. Even after a bottle of Bordeaux..

[JonahTakalua]

hi rg.
there was a thread on this a few weeks ago.
the majority of posters basically agreed with you - that bonekickers is pile of steaming shite!

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

As an aside, did anyone else think it was called Bone Knickers?

[vonsudenfed]

I can't watch it; in fact the dialogue is so bad that I can't even be in the next room to it.

Inexplicably, DH has become addicted, and wants to know what happens in the end...

[retiredgoth]

.....I think Bone Knickers is a fine title.

Significantly better premise too....

[retiredgoth]

.... the lead actress has many, er, fine qualities von sudenfed. I hesitate to suggest that this might have led to your DH's interest but I fear it may have been implicated in my wish to persevere to a second episode..

[JulesJules]

Yes, known as Boneknickers in this house. There have been a few threads on this.

It is actually so bad it's FAB, and I am desperately hoping that it is not cancelled after this mini - 6 episode series. Highlight of our week, we get wine and crisps and everything.

Very quotable, too - "Give up your secrets" whispered to a trench, for example...

[DillyTanty]

it's hilarious, i rather like it now. vs your dh will be happy with the final episode, it all comes together in a suitably risible fashion and inclused the line 'don't mess with me i'm an archaeologist'. fooking brilliant.

[JonahTakalua]

it will have achieved cult status by next year.

[DillyTanty]

jules, did you also like 'i've got an etruscan sword and i'm not afraid to use it'? rofl.

[DillyTanty]

btw ashley pharaoh also involved in where the heart is so hardly a byword for dramatic quality.

[vonsudenfed]

apparently it has been recommissioned (or so my sources tell me).

God only knows how, it's been losing viewers like nobody's business.

[JulesJules]

Oh yes, that may have been repeated a few times round here! Also "Don't you just love Iceni coinage" to a bright and shiny coin picked up off the ground apparently only buried a millimetre down. I am fond of the way they stumble across the true cross (in Bath, obviously), Boudicca's love nest (and actual body), Joan of Arc's bones etc, merrily destroy the lot and bugger off to the pub without a trace of regret. I think in the last ep they will find at least the actual Round Table, if not Excalibur, torch them and get to the pub before last orders. Can't wait.

[DillyTanty]

critics love it..

[JulesJules]

It's been recommissioned?? You have made me so happy, must go and tell DH...

[Twinklemegan]

It has WHAT?? It is the most embarrassingly appalling load of shite I've had the misfortune to watch for a long time. And I've only been able to sit through one full episode. Apart from anything else, it manages to make the subject matter boring. And I'm a member of the profession, so if I find it boring there's not much hope for anyone else! Mind you my colleague's addicted to it - she reckons it's so bad it's really quite good.

[DillyTanty]

aren't julie graham and adrian lester shite? LOVE hugh 'call yourself a bonekicker?' bonneville.

[DillyTanty]

i wept with laughter at the boudicca body. lolol.

[retiredgoth]

...I particularly enjoyed the cave paintings of George Washington initiating affirmative action....

[TwoWindyDays]

We love it too but for all the wrong reasons, as already mentioned

[Cappuccino]

we liked "There's a killer snake on the loose!" screamed at a hotel guest

[JackieNo]

I think it's dreadful too, but am inexplicably addicted. I loved 'I've got an Etruscan spear, and I'm not afraid to use it' too. And the whole mysterious quest for whatever her mother was looking for - what's that about, then? (see, addicted).

[DillyTanty]

oh yes, rofl at the killer cartoon snake, have you EVER seen such bad CGI? it was fabulous.

just you wait, jackieno, just you wait. it'll all come bad good in the end.

[JackieNo]

. Can't wait. Is it King Arthur's round table they're finding this week?

[DillyTanty]

not saying. i'd get lynched.