The Singing Detective (1986)
Show title: The Singing Detective
IMDb score:
8,5 (5.102)
Episodes: 6
Playing time: 7 hour
Developed by: Dennis Potter
Stars: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide and Joanne Whalley
Origin:
Australia / United Kingdom
Releasedate: Sunday 16 November 1986
First aired on: BBC One (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
This season is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and Actresses
Philip Marlow
Mr. Marlow
Mark Binney
Mrs. Marlow
Night Nurse
Reginald
Nicola
Nurse Mills
Staff Nurse White
Second Soldier
Consultant
First Mysterious Man
Dr. Finlay
Mr. Hall
Schoolteacher
Reviews & comments
Bobbejaantje
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Sublime series. Reality and imagination constantly merge with their dark sides. With jolly thirties and forties music as a binding agent, which makes the whole even more alienating. Some of the scenes are fully stylized in film noir mode, trying to approach the play of light and shadow from the classic period of noir. They partly succeed, they can never match the mastery of that time, but the tribute is clear. In terms of content there are also a lot of links with classic noir, of course the open door with regard to the naming Philip Marlow, but also with regard to the theme of psycho-analysis to which Michael Gambon (as Marlow) is subjected, and in which sexual trauma the engine of his life turns out to be the motor of his life from his youth. Does the latter sound heavy - whatever it is in itself - it is, however, balanced with nice phlegmatic British humor sprinkled over the series. In terms of style, there is also the flashback element that is equally characteristic of noir.
Everyone involved plays their part well, but especially hats off for what Michael Gambon manages to achieve here in all his metamorphoses. I have to admit that his flaky skin wasn't something to look forward to episode after episode, but it's a key feature.
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