Product: Band of Gold: The Complete First Series
Rating: 4.0
Excellent as a drama on the lives of prostitutes but only fair as a thriller
Intelligent if slightly awkward melding of a gritty, sad drama of life of the street for working classprostitutes in the UK, and a somewhat more melodramatic and soapy (if sometimes quite tense)serial killer thriller.Unlike `Klute' where the world of hustling and thriller melded seamlessly, here there is a bit moreschizophrenia between the elements. For me, the crime sections, while sometimes effective, werealso quite familiar, and felt like TV and movies I'd seen many times before, whereas the portrait ofthe day to day lives of hustlers felt like much more interesting and less often explored in anon-exploitive way. The killings and investigation feel oddly grafted on.