What are your thoughts on Ashes To Ashes? I think it's a shameless cash-in on the hunger for nostalgia. The Eighties are the latest let's laugh at the silly things they did/said/wore/listened to decade but take that out of the equation and it's a very boring police comedy drama.
I didn't much like the last series but I tried again with this one and it's all wrong. The look is wrong, the plots are silly, the Gene Genie schtick is tired beyond belief - Philip Glenister clearly thinks he's created a monster he'll never be able to shake off, and most importantly (to me) the music is wrong - Human League's Mirror Man was not released until the end of 82, and this is set at the outbreak of the Falklands War. Lazy research! People notice these things. Well I do anyway.
1982 seems like the blink of an eye away to me. Perhaps I'm not ready to see it as 'the past' yet. That said, I'll no doubt tune in next week.
What do you think?
