Starting to wonder now if I might have made a mistake in picking "Tales of Unease" as my next 70's TV series to watch, as this episode is particularly ponderous and uneventful.
Four miners are trapped underground following an accident with a minecart. One of them, Bill (Ronald Lewis) has been acting strange all day, staring into the shadows and talking of a "Black Goddess" much to the chagrin of his friend Lestyn (David Lloyd Meredith). The trapped Miners try to keep their spirits up as the rescue team tries to get to them, particularly for youngster Tommy (Bryan Griffiths), but Bill comes to believe that they're as already finished.
Three episodes in now and I'm still not really sure I could tell you what the theme of "Tales of Unease" really is. The first was a ghost story, the second a contrived but very human murder and this is... well, we along with Bill see some shadows moving in the mine's darkest recesses but it's not really a ghost story. The best I can make out it's an antichristian story, given what happens at the end but I found it to be rather a dull plot up to that point and much like the previous edition doesn't go far enough into its core idea.
Performances aren't bad and it looks like they filmed in an actual mine but again, I struggled to get through it, despite it only being twenty five minutes or so. Hoping for an upturn in this series soon.
Four miners are trapped underground following an accident with a minecart. One of them, Bill (Ronald Lewis) has been acting strange all day, staring into the shadows and talking of a "Black Goddess" much to the chagrin of his friend Lestyn (David Lloyd Meredith). The trapped Miners try to keep their spirits up as the rescue team tries to get to them, particularly for youngster Tommy (Bryan Griffiths), but Bill comes to believe that they're as already finished.
Three episodes in now and I'm still not really sure I could tell you what the theme of "Tales of Unease" really is. The first was a ghost story, the second a contrived but very human murder and this is... well, we along with Bill see some shadows moving in the mine's darkest recesses but it's not really a ghost story. The best I can make out it's an antichristian story, given what happens at the end but I found it to be rather a dull plot up to that point and much like the previous edition doesn't go far enough into its core idea.
Performances aren't bad and it looks like they filmed in an actual mine but again, I struggled to get through it, despite it only being twenty five minutes or so. Hoping for an upturn in this series soon.