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Post by danb on Jan 3, 2024 22:17:51 GMT
Three episodes in and this is just outstanding stuff. An absolutely stellar cast; Claire Calbraith always so real, Lia Williams & Kat Kelly both pure calculated evil as the baddies of the piece gaslighting the poor sub-postmasters at every turn, Shaun Dooley ✅ Toby Jones✅ Julie Hesmondhalgh✅ all absolutely killing it as broken people being so utterly horribly abused by the Post Offices & Fujitsu’s upper echelons trying to save their own arses, even managing to side step the government trying to hold them to account. I realise that these things are boosted with added sensationalist narrative, but I’m not sure which plot points are gloss.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 3, 2024 22:29:24 GMT
Have to agree , excellent storytelling of such an abysmal breach of power. Documentary also on Thursday after the news. Shocking to see and it's difficult to believe it happened.
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 4, 2024 8:53:39 GMT
I am very much aware of this, however I am yet to see it.
If it's about the Post Office scandal where the till's didn't add up because of a computing software issue, with people being sent to jail, it's referred to as the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history.
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Post by danb on Jan 4, 2024 10:23:44 GMT
Thats the one 😬
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Post by kathryn on Jan 4, 2024 11:07:17 GMT
All episodes on ITvX - I binged them.
Compelling drama about a horrendous miscarriage of justice.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jan 4, 2024 12:54:41 GMT
I am very much aware of this, however I am yet to see it. If it's about the Post Office scandal where the till's didn't add up because of a computing software issue, with people being sent to jail, it's referred to as the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history. Four suicides linked to the absolutely awful story |
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Post by alece10 on Jan 4, 2024 17:38:48 GMT
I also binge watched it. Great acting and well written.
Such an awful story, made me so angry.
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Post by danb on Jan 4, 2024 18:05:13 GMT
I also binge watched it. Great acting and well written. Such an awful story, made me so angry. Angry is totally the right world. I recognised so much of the Post Offices behaviour in our last few governments. Just change the rules to suit their own narrative. I didn’t find the last episode quite as rewarding as I wanted. It to be. |
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Post by theatreian on Jan 5, 2024 16:48:41 GMT
Did anyone else notice Katherine Kelly's accent changing from English to Welsh?
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Post by Jon on Jan 5, 2024 16:57:17 GMT
I find it strange Nadhim Zahawi played himself.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2024 17:16:24 GMT
I find it strange Nadhim Zahawi played himself. Former Chancellor's need to earn a living but strange casting. With some of these Govt or Local Govt IT and Finance systems which moves around huge amounts of cash. I always wonder if some programmer has ever tried or managed to build in some code which might move a very small amount of money their way as a tiny percentage of the daily interest or from a random transaction each day. It would likely never be noticed as it was such a small amount or there was no pattern to it. But overtime this amount builds up and up. The almost perfect fraud. |
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Post by n1david on Jan 5, 2024 23:52:01 GMT
Former Chancellor's need to earn a living but strange casting. Oh yes, he appears to be down to his last £27m having grudgingly paid £5m in tax following a dispute with HMRC. I'm sure he did it for the money. |
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 6, 2024 10:09:25 GMT
Would love to watch this but I know it would make me so angry that it wouldn’t be good for me. Absolutely disgusting situation 😢
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Post by danb on Jan 6, 2024 17:12:56 GMT
Would love to watch this but I know it would make me so angry that it wouldn’t be good for me. Absolutely disgusting situation 😢 Yes, avoid. Even the ‘resolution’ doesn’t feel that satisfying and it is all still very much ongoing. It is a brilliantly realised piece of television but for someone who would get overwhelmed when Tucker Jenkins was accused of something he didn’t do, I’d give it the swerve til every last person has been acquitted & compensated. |
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Post by alece10 on Jan 6, 2024 18:29:09 GMT
The power of TV.
I wonder if this drama had not been made, even with an ongoing public enquiry, whether the MET would have opened up an investigation or the government would have made today's announcement.
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Post by danb on Jan 6, 2024 19:42:55 GMT
Missed this; what announcement?
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Post by alece10 on Jan 6, 2024 21:03:58 GMT
Missed this; what announcement? Jeremy Hunt made announcement about compensation payments. |
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Post by ruthieh on Jan 7, 2024 22:45:50 GMT
Wow. Just finished watching this. As a (family) lawyer, I’m absolutely speechless.
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Post by Mark on Jan 7, 2024 23:53:26 GMT
Brilliant television but a truly tragic story. Those poor people... NORMAL hard working people. It could have been anyone.
Also, give Monica Dolan all the awards, loved her in this.
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Post by jaybird89 on Jan 8, 2024 10:44:47 GMT
Watched this last night wow what a brilliant piece of television. It made me so angry I wanted to smash my telly up I actually and tot take little breaks and then at other points I'd be in tears.
I loved my home town small local
Post office and to think this could have happened to the lovely lady who runs that makes me boil inside.
Great writing great performances just wonderful.
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Post by mkb on Jan 8, 2024 11:13:43 GMT
Wow. Just finished watching this. As a (family) lawyer, I’m absolutely speechless. I've not watched the tv series, so I am a bit puzzled by reactions like this one and many others all over social media and mainstream media. I was outraged and seething when I first read about these clear miscarriages of justice many, many years ago, and which have still have not been properly compensated and for which none of those culpable in the cover-up has been held to account. What exactly is in the tv drama that wasn't already widely reported years ago? |
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Post by ruthieh on Jan 8, 2024 11:19:01 GMT
Wow. Just finished watching this. As a (family) lawyer, I’m absolutely speechless. I've not watched the tv series, so I am a bit puzzled by reactions like this one and many others all over social media and mainstream media. I was outraged and seething when I first read about these clear miscarriages of justice many, many years ago, and which have still have not been properly compensated and for which none of those culpable in the cover-up has been held to account. What exactly is in the tv drama that wasn't already widely reported years ago? I agree, as I had followed in the legal press, but I think for me, just seeing the human toll and cost in a drama, just brought it home, the scale of it. And undoubted cover up is shocking. Also it goes to show the power of tv to finally getting it nearer to justice for these poor folk. It’s incomprehensible to me, that they didn’t get ordered something or all of their costs as well as the compensation in the successful civil case. |
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Post by marob on Jan 8, 2024 11:44:17 GMT
This has been going on for years. It’s good people are talking about it, just a shame it took a TV show for the public to take notice. But what do people actually expect is going to happen?
Because the cynic in me expects nothing will come of it. Like the Windrush scandal, or the Grenfell/cladding scandal. Post Office might release a statement of “regret” and talk about “lessons learned” then pension a few people off. The can will be kicked down the road by a government that doesn’t care and knows it’s days are numbered, people still won’t get compensation or justice.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 8, 2024 12:48:18 GMT
Grenfell has had a massive impact on fire safety in residential blocks though. Too late for the poor victims of course but there have been many many new regulations designed to make sure it can’t happen again.
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Post by danb on Jan 8, 2024 13:11:15 GMT
Wow. Just finished watching this. As a (family) lawyer, I’m absolutely speechless. I've not watched the tv series, so I am a bit puzzled by reactions like this one and many others all over social media and mainstream media. I was outraged and seething when I first read about these clear miscarriages of justice many, many years ago, and which have still have not been properly compensated and for which none of those culpable in the cover-up has been held to account. What exactly is in the tv drama that wasn't already widely reported years ago? Probably nothing but I (and presumably many others) assumed that because it had all come to light, people would have been properly compensated or exonerated at the time. |
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