After the success of Tutti Frutti, John Byrne returned with another musical based dark comedy thriller. This time the results were less successful probably because of the imprenetable dialogue.
The genre here is Country & Western, Scottish style. Frank McClusky (John Gordon Sinclair) is a local journalist who has been asked by Cissie Crouch (Tilda Swinton) to clear her husband's name for armed robbery. She thinks her husband was framed by a bad guy Fraser Boyle (Ken Stott) who was involved in the music scene. Frank is smitten by Cissie who might just be using him.
There were a wide range of quirky characters in this serial a lot of them as bad guys. It is a modern day western set in Glasgow with a nod to Chinatown. John Gordon Sinclair appears in the early episodes with his nose bandaged up.
The story did not gel, it was hard to sympathise with some of the characters who felt distant. It lacked the warmth and the genuine quirkiness of Tutti Frutti. I rewatched this recently and I still found it incomprehensible.
This was the last serial written for television by John Byrne.
It is still a pleasure to see Guy Mitchell and Eddi Reader perform 'Let Your Love Flow' with a line dance by a motorcycle gang in the final episode.
The genre here is Country & Western, Scottish style. Frank McClusky (John Gordon Sinclair) is a local journalist who has been asked by Cissie Crouch (Tilda Swinton) to clear her husband's name for armed robbery. She thinks her husband was framed by a bad guy Fraser Boyle (Ken Stott) who was involved in the music scene. Frank is smitten by Cissie who might just be using him.
There were a wide range of quirky characters in this serial a lot of them as bad guys. It is a modern day western set in Glasgow with a nod to Chinatown. John Gordon Sinclair appears in the early episodes with his nose bandaged up.
The story did not gel, it was hard to sympathise with some of the characters who felt distant. It lacked the warmth and the genuine quirkiness of Tutti Frutti. I rewatched this recently and I still found it incomprehensible.
This was the last serial written for television by John Byrne.
It is still a pleasure to see Guy Mitchell and Eddi Reader perform 'Let Your Love Flow' with a line dance by a motorcycle gang in the final episode.