The Fear... Brighton Gangster

[TheDuke]

Just noticed on Channel 4 on Demand that there is a 4 part drama series called The Fear, set in B&H. I saw a few minutes and it's about a Brighton businessman (Peter Mullen) and a scheme for rebuilding West Pier. Anyone seen it.. is it worth persevering?

 

[Nibble]

It's genuinely disappointing. Very badly written, poor acting and weak, weak story.

 

[middletoenail]

Yes, keep watching. I saw it all earlier in the year and it is Ok.

 

[Nibble]

5 hours of a land rover pulling up outside a flat, polish gang getting out, nothing happening then they get back in the land rover interspersed with Mullen staring into the middle distance while a crappy back story plays in his mind. Dreadful telly.

 

[surrey jim]

Saw it when it was on earlier this year. Rubbish TV

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Just about watchable. What hacked me off was the anachronisms with locations you notice if your a native Brightonian. For example they would be heading west past the West Pier one minute then turn a corner, new shot and they are in Kemp Town. Good performance from the lead chap as the dementia kicked in, but overall I was a bit disappointed.

 

[banjo]

3 out of 10. Not brilliant.

 

[Nibble]

Nothing happens in it. At all. Nothing. At all. Nowt.

 

[darters74]

Yes, keep watching. I saw it all earlier in the year and it is Ok.

This. Better than most of the rubbish on the tellybox nowadays!

 

[Dunk]

Worst.

Brighton-based gangster-with-Alzheimers 4-part drama.

Ever.

 

[Nibble]

Worst.

Brighton-based gangster-with-Alzheimers 4-part drama.

Ever.

Ha!

Seriously though, it's awful. Wooden acting, non-existent plot summed up as follows:

Old gangster gets alzheimers, loses his crackers, his kids send him onto the beach to get shot by a rival. They fill the other 8 hours driving haphazardly around Brighton and seeing a bunch of Polaks driving around a farm in a Land Rover in tracksuit bottoms and leather jackets.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Ha!

Seriously though, it's awful. Wooden acting, non-existent plot summed up as follows:

Old gangster gets alzheimers, loses his crackers, his kids send him onto the beach to get shot by a rival. They fill the other 8 hours driving haphazardly around Brighton and seeing a bunch of Polaks driving around a farm in a Land Rover in tracksuit bottoms and leather jackets.

I have to take issue with you here......



....im sure they were not Polish.

 

[martyn20]

I quite enjoyed it

 

[MICK PATCHAM]

It was different at least ....focusing on a hard mans inevitable frailties ...but the apalling continuity of locations is jarring.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

things aren't good purely because they're set in brighton

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

Incidentally the same actor was pretty good in 'Top of the Lake' too, just watched the final part of that.

 

[northstandsteve]

A Lot of it was set elsewhere, Eastbourne or Worthing i think and were they not Albanians? or am i confused.

 

[TheDuke]

Just noticed on Channel 4 on Demand that there is a 4 part drama series called The Fear, set in B&H. I saw a few minutes and it's about a Brighton businessman (Peter Mullen) and a scheme for rebuilding West Pier. Anyone seen it.. is it worth persevering?

Thanks chaps... I used to be undecided now I'm not so sure... about watching it. Such a mixed bag of reports.

 

[albion534]

It would of been better if an out war happens, it didn't

It was awful

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Thanks chaps... I used to be undecided now I'm not so sure... about watching it. Such a mixed bag of reports.

Hardly a mixed bag. They all seem pretty decisive. The best it got was "It's OK".