Welcome one and all to Day 1 of David
Tennant Week. Given I have written several Doctor Who episodes
starring the fellow of the week I thought it would be nice to see
some other BBC projects that he managed to snare prior his sand
shoes, suit, brainy specs and long coat. Such as is the series today
involving an arcade owner who is attempting to turn his arcade into
an almost casino style hotel worthy of Vegas in the hopes to rake it
in and give people something to do. All is good until a young man
is murdered and the DI has to get into our arcade owner's business
and personal life. This is Blackpool.
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| Well the name says it all. |
The murder of a young man occurs in
Ripley Holden's (David Morrissey of Stoned, Derailed,
Meadowlands, Sense & Sensibility, Five Days and The Walking Dead)
arcade and no stone must be left upturned. The DI (Detective
Inspector, you poor yanks) in charge is one Peter Carlisle (David
Tennant of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Secret Smile, Doctor
Who: The Infinite Quest, The Decoy Bride and The Escape Artist)
who comes off charming and good natured but is in fact quite
manipulative and is convinced that Holden savaged the boy for
skimming from the till or had a fight with him that went out of hand.
Everyone's lives have been turned upside down as the coppers have
to back and forth from the arcade to their homes and disrupt their
lives in search of the truth behind the murder.
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| Fresh out of Jelly Babies. That was 6 regenerations ago. |
Holden has his own family to think
about. His wife Natalie (Sarah Parish of Cutting It, Our
Hidden Lives, If I Had You, The Holiday, Mistresses, Monroe and
Atlantis) who grows weary of putting on a happy face when her
family is in chaos, Holden takes her for granted and in general she
is lost in her own life. Their kids Shyanne (Georgia Taylor of
Coronation Street, The Royal, Blackpool, Casualty and Law &
Order: UK) a rotten to the core spoiled brat constantly
undermining authority in need of more understanding, love and so on
and Danny (Thomas Morrison of Brideshead Revisited, Doctors,
Casualty, Monroe and The Theory of Everything) an awkward and
deeply troubled boy that is constantly berated by his own father for
not being what he deems a man. From the get-go you can see Holden
has a temper but years of restraint keeps it under wraps. At the end
of the day though, he screams bully and you can see how his rage take
ahold of him. Our good DI seems to want Holden to be the murderer,
in his heart he needs him to be the murderer as this case is eating
him up. Carlisle starts to take a shine to Natalie and concluding
to himself he just needs to get into Holden's head and get him to
come forward and confess.
The musical score is vital to carrying
the elements of the show when it gets downright sinister to the
tender budding romances. Tennant and Morrissey come off as they
genuinely hate one another.
Is Holden the murderer? Will Carlisle
pursue Natalie and will she in turn pursue him?
And now some trivia... because you all
do bar crawls and trivia games... well maybe a few of you.
Character actor David Bradley, David
Morrissey and David Tennant all have a connection. Both Bradley and
Tennant have been in Harry Potter and Morrissey and Tennant were in
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor Christmas Special. Furthermore David
Bradley portrayed William Hartnell the First Doctor in An Adventure
in Time and Space. Complex that is, eh?
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