Inside Harley Street

[ImperialBlether]

Anyone watching this? If so, do you think the interviewer is really crass?

In a way I admired some of the interviewer's questions, to be honest I expect a lot of people watching that wanted to know how much everything cost, me included. But then there were other moments where I found the questions uncomfortable and/or stupid, like harping on about the worst things the courrier carried. And in the last program, I hated the way they showed the most embarassing bits of that woman's private health check, i.e. the questions about her periods and bowel movements.

All in all though, I thought it was a very interesting series, particularly the last one on alternative health remedies. For me, it really seemed to suggest a lot of people who were going for alternative health remedies were suffering from huge sadnesses in their personal lives (the woman who had miscarried at 11 weeks, the fairly young guy whose partner had died unexpectedly) and it did seem that they were being taken advantage of in a way. Then again, the conductor who had the tapping remedy really believed it had helped him and I guess that's what counts - but I had to mute the TV whhen it showed his therapy, I found it so cringeworthy and stupid.

The guy with Alzheimers was such a sad case. And another one that really saddened me was the man getting a hair transplant, it wasn't really clear exactly what was going on there (he looked perfectly fine with the head he had) and his poor mum who bought everything from charity shops and worried about him so much...I really felt for her, even though she obviously adored her son and I suppose if he was spending his own money on it and seemed to be really nice to her it's fine. I just felt really sad about it for some reason.

I agree with your analysis of the characters and issues raised. It was quite funny (sad) when they visited the conductor in his dressing room and did a close up on a packet of pills, implying painkillers. I did feel that a lot of the people in the last episode were quite vulnerable and being taken advantage of but that was their choice. Those identical twins were weird and I thought that was total Mumbo jumbo

I was unhappy with the interview with a random man who after asking questions had a stutter and couldn't easily say his name. The footage of him stuttering was kept in and used to make a random and pretty irrelevent link it felt really exploitative and crass.

That aside it is quite compelling andatthe bit sad.