HISTORICAL ACCURACY (2)

DR's historical drama about 1864 finished this evening, so it is time for a judgment. Not about the historical accuracy (that one will run for a while), but whether it's any good as television drama.

Not very, is my view. The man who both wrote the script and directed the series was given far too much money and (even worse) far too much slack. The formula which has served DR Drama so well in recent years (a main writer supplemented by episode writers) collapsed when the director fired the episode writers. The result is one man's work, and he messed up.

Walter Blotscher