We all know how much the makers of British TV drama just love to pat themselves on the back and I'm sure, away from any sane ears, they still think it is the best in the world. Those endless interminable, turgid period, police, and rundown estate shows withmediocre acting and leaden scripts full of dialogue as painful as a root canal and still those BAFTA pats on the back.
Well if all those overly smug writers and producers tuned into Dave, avoiding Clarkson and Stephen Fry not easy I'll admit, they would find the American legal drama Suits. They would watch it and cry; because Suits is everything the vast, vast majority of British dramas are not. It is slick, excellently acted, the characters are real and you root for them, the stories are involving and it moves at a fantastic pace, but most of all the dialogue crackles. It feels like a lot of effort has gone into every line and it has been crafted. Dialogue crafted like The West Wing, yes it's that sharp. If you watched one episode of Suits and then held it up against say Channel Four's Utopia, the difference would beimmediately evident. Suits is tailored Saville Row Utopia is off the peg Primark.
I gave up on Utopia because of its slow pace, cardboard characters, and straight to DVD action flick dialogue. All stuff you would never find anywhere near Suits. Adopting the Utopia conspiracy theory bunkum, perhaps that is why Suits is buried over on Dave, to promote it to a major channel would show up the shoddy stuff they palm us off with then hand themselves a BAFTA for doing so.
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