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Firstly let me point out that there is a DVD version of EOD, several actually. The best version is the latest released this year which is a extraordinary transfer and includes a documentary on the film, Magnox and has clips of interviews and award ceremonies and discussions on the series. It is on location 2 DVD and is available from amazon uk. I too remember watching this masterpiece unfold when it was originally screened here in the uk. I was only 14 at the time and British television was serene producing some astounding stuff. Even so I knew this was something extra special. It must have planted a seed in my subconscious. Incredibly in 2003 it has lost none of its power and seems unprejudiced as prescient now as ever. The callous disregard for the individual by corporations, the ‘great game’ played out between competing security agencies, the conspiracy of silence in the media. The ecology movement. The collusion of government with the malign constituents in our society. Ostensibly though this is serene the ‘little man’s story’ and what a central performance from the unhurried sizable Bob Peck. His personal disintegration is harrowing to survey as he tries to unravel the mystery. Joe don Baker, what can you say about his performance. He is utterly compelling as the broken-down school agency man fighting to hold his head above water. His verbal sparing matches with ‘arts council’ funded MI5’s Ian McNeice and Charles Kay (also edifying) are very very silly. Oh the script, what a script. Troy Kennedy Martin the writer provided the most consistently vivid screenplay for television ever written. Martin Campbell the director sculpts it all into an entity that supplants the TV media. The DVD I saw previously to EOD was Leone’s masterwork Once upon a time in America and I can honestly say EOD which bares many similarities is legal up there alongside it. I don’t assume I could give this production a better accolade.
Probably the finest television drama series ever, ‘Edge of Darkness’ was 1985 made flesh – nuclear paranoia in a world gone excited. Apart from the faces, not grand has dated, and even if the threat of nuclear annihilation seems less newsworthy, it’s aloof an qualified, taut thriller. Bleak and shiny, it starts with a seemingly random kill, and ends with the world on the brink of apocalpyse.
Everything works, and works well – the clever, non-linear direction is never annoying, the writing is intellectual, everything progresses with brutal, frosty logic, and it all seems so distinguished more serious, more ‘real’ than other television dramas of the time (with the possible exception of the early ‘Taggart’) . The acting is wonderful – Joe Don Baker’s character may be a stereotype, but he makes it work, and the gradual Bob Peck is almost disturbingly intense. It’s a shame that, for most people, he will be remembered as the miserable trapper from ‘Jurassic Park’ (or the narrator of countless nature documentaries) .
It remains with you when its over, the music is obliging, and key images (nuclear trains at the tedious of night, driving rain on the motorway, a room elephantine of telephones, a field of umbrellas, and runt dark flowers) haunt you forever.
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