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A Very British Cult (2023)
Solid yet overly long and often meandering.
As with many BBC serial podcast, this is very much drawn out, perhaps especially so. The four hour running is very much unnecessary and hard to justify.
The titles is rather misleading, as there is nothing distinctively British about the cult - as the show itself points out the influences of the cult are very much American self help guru's of tghe1990's - "the decade of self help"- which The South African leader of "Lighthouse" Paul Waugh corrupts. There is a conversation where a talking head claims "most British people think cults are from USA and wear long orange robes". So maybe it's just the fact the cult is based in Britain, that makes it "very British".
Gangs of London (2020)
Aims Pretty Low
If this show was prefect it could get 7/10. As it only aims that high. This reminds me of straight to DVD UK gang/footie hooligan flicks. With all the 'quality' , "premium" and "slow-burn" TV being produced, things like this still have an audience, and surely this has been made to order. I've no idea why it has to be series though, and what is gained by extended time in this set-up, the plot and characters are more suited to 90 mins.