At least they've been more imaginative with the music than an 80s-set drama usually is, with the Jam, the Mighty Wah!, Talking Heads. God, it's like Goose Green, in the heat of the battle. It's hard to know which is thicker here – the sexism, or the smoke. I suppose a period drama does always like to lay on the period pretty thick, almost to the point of parody. But even so, flipping Nora! And less than 30 years ago, too! OK, so the newspaper office at the centre of the drama isn't the Guardian but the "Glasgow Daily News" maybe change came a bit later there. Was it really like that? Well yes, according to The Field of Blood (BBC1), David Kane's two-part adaptation of Denise Mina's novel. I've come to work by Tardis today, and arrived in 1982. "You don't look like a stranger to a macaroon." Ha ha ha. "Cheer up, for fuck's sake," and I offer her one of my macaroons. Half an hour later, she's still looking upset.
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