O/T The Gallows Pole

BBC drama series. Anybody else watched it? I watched first one and initially thought I'd intruded on someone's cheese dream. It has a strange juxtaposition of modern language idioms in period drama.
However, I persevered and read up on the Cragg Vale Coiners.
An amazing story and a piece of fascinating Yorkshire folklore, occurring as it did against a backdrop of the start of the industrial revolution and the decimation of workers' rights. It speaks to something inside of me as a Yorkshireman, perhaps we are blueprinted to rebel on some level. It struck me when visiting the Tolson museum in Huddersfield with the kids that the romans found it hard to quell the hill people of the Pennines, called the Brigantes (Brigands and Brighouse anyone?)
The series seems to have ended abruptly, I really hope there is more to come.

 

Loved it. Shane Meadows can do no wrong for me though.

I’d be very surprised if there aren’t full-length series on the way, as that three-parter looked to be teeing that up perfectly.

 

The Ben Myers novel it's based on is brilliant, although covers everything that happened subsequently. Series was a bit of a prequel.

 

I like this one.

 

one of the actors was born on Wombwell. Fine Time Fontayne (real name Ian Crossley) was born there in 1951.

 

i maybe wrong ( i usually am) but a lot of SM's stuff is only partially scripted and the actors know where they have to set off from and where they have to end up and what points have to be made.............. deadmans shoes was pure class

 

We have had a couple of disagreements on here, but I have to say, I'd not heard this before and you have just in some small way enriched my life with this, top tune. There is something about Plant's voice that just cuts through. Thank you friend. !!

 

Yeah, a lot of improv involved. And has realistic dialogue (in my opinion) where numerous voices are talking over each other.

Hopefully the BBC get behind it and it gets the Peaky Blinders treatment.

 

Thought it was a bit of a weird start, but then got right into it .

 

He got that off Ken Loach.

 

Well, I turned it off after about 15 minutes, the lack of a worded script really let it down and the use of modern phrases threw the whole thing off kilter to the point of seeming a village hall production had somehow made it to television.

 

I feel like I'm perservering with it because it's Meadows and I should like it, rather than I actually do.

Agree with @Del Rosso the dialogue in Ep 1 felt really poor.

 

He played Henry Wakefield with Stan and Hilda on coronation street

 

Agree with that.

To be fair though, it's had marmite reactions/reviews. Some giving it full marks, others saying it's tripe.

It's worth watching just to hear 'sithi' on national telly every few minutes.

 

Bit of a slow start, but very watchable. Theme Music is excellent. mystery lights???

 

Scab scab scab

 

Superb