'The Slap' - BBC Four (Thursday 22:00) - Anybody Else Hooked?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Rarely got the attention span to follow anything much at all, but IMHO 'The Slap' is well worth the effort. Based on a book of the same name, its a superb drama comprising eight seperate tales all based around a really annoying kid getting a slap at an Oz barbie to celebrate one of the characters 40th birthday party. Each of the episodes examines the effects of The Slap on a seperate character. None of the set of half a dozen usual stock Aussie actors are present, which adds to the purity of the thing. Well worth an hour of anybody's time IMHO. Repeated on Saturday on BBC 4 at 22:30 or available as a catch-up on BBC iPlayer.

 

[Lush]

Sounds more entertaining than the book. It's a good concept but the writing was KANGAROO BOLLOCKS.

 

[brakespear]

The wife watched the first episode and from what I saw of it it resembled 'Neighbours' on an off-day. Couldn't work out what the narration was there for either. Maybe it was just that the whole slap part of it seemed a little ludicrous.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

No but I am hooked to the Jury on ITV at 9pm every day this week.

 

[Kazenga <3]

Kid deserved the slap, he was a cretin.

 

[Lush]

Kid deserved the slap, he was a cretin.

Ah, but if he was YOUR cretin, and another dad slapped him?

See - it's quite a good concept.

 

[Kazenga <3]

Ah, but if he was YOUR cretin, and another dad slapped him?

See - it's quite a good concept.

Would undoubtedly go to beat the shit out of the bloke that did it and press child abuse charges

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Sounds more entertaining than the book. It's a good concept but the writing was KANGAROO BOLLOCKS.

Totally agree. I read more than half of it and it was self indulgent rubbish. Nothing happened and the characters were loathsome. An over rated tedious failure.

 

[super-seagulls]

Ah, but if he was YOUR cretin, and another dad slapped him?
See - it's quite a good concept.

Would undoubtedly go to beat the shit out of the bloke that did it and press child abuse charges

Before wondering how I had raised a 'cretin'?