Surely not every mystery needs, or deserves, such treatment, Touching Evil , for example, would have been better off being limited to a single fifteen minute pilot, but that's another rant altogether. The source print and transfer are frankly below par. While this may well be the best print they could get they made seemingly no effort to restore and improve it and, with the four episodes spread over two discs the low bitrate used seems inappropriate. On the plus side the set does include a short but interesting interview with Carmichael. Recommended with reservations.
Big kids is silly, amiable fun with game performances from all concerned.
Jason portrays Frank Beck, estate manager of the King's royal residence at Sandringham during the madness of World War One. When a company is formed from the estates workers Beck insists, against the King's wishes, on leading them into battle. What would have otherwise been a fascinating examination of class and warfare becomes one of history's most perplexing mysteries when Beck's Sandrinham Company march into battle at Gallipoli, are enveloped in an impenetrable mist and disappear without a trace. All the King's Men is powerful stuff, all the more so for great performances from Dame Maggie Smith as Queen Alexandria and Emma Cunnliffe as her maid. All the Kings Men airs on BBC America March 25.