Midwich Cuckoos - Sky Max & Now - Starts Thursday 2nd June
DaisyDream
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Saw advert for this sci-fi series with Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley based on the John Wyndham novel.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/keeley-hawes-midwich-cuckoos-featurette-exclusive-newsupdate/
Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but staring Keeley and Max, I’ve set a series link so happy to see how it plays out.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/keeley-hawes-midwich-cuckoos-featurette-exclusive-newsupdate/
Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but staring Keeley and Max, I’ve set a series link so happy to see how it plays out.
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The original novel was much like that as I recall, good read though.
Keeley Hawes is usually good.
Max Beesley isn't.
God the book was the most boring book I have ever read. Mounds of exposition AFTER the fact. Usually when the two main male characters were smoking pipes and standing in front of the fireplace.
And I liked a lot of Wyndhams books.
Sounds like Village Of The Dammed from 1960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_the_Damned_(1960_film)
Agree
Dreadfully slow and some really bad acting.
Downloaded all eps when it was released but after sitting through three episodes, I’ve delegated the rest.
Huge fan of Wyndham. Day of the Triffids, the Kraken Wakes and the Chrysalids stand up as true greats of the British sci-fi genre, but no they don't take to modern TV adaptations, which almost entirely miss the prevailing nuclear and cold war paranoia of the post-war years which Wyndham satirises, usually by having a stiff-upper lip Brit as unlikely hero. This one is pretty hopeless for anyone who hopes for them preserving the essence of this, no matter what crass modern fads are stuck on it.
I'll stick it out but so far it's more like Stepford Wives than anything remotely authentic.
Seriously, the book is remarkably turgid in places, more so even than earlier sci-fi works like 'The War of the Worlds'. At times, though, some modern relevance can be found in passages intended in a quite different context, such as:
'The true fruit of this century has little interest in coming to living-terms with innovations; it just greedily grabs them all as they come along. Only when it encounters something really big does it become aware of a social problem at all, and then, rather than make concessions, it yammers for the impossibly easy way out, uninvention, suppression – as in the matter of The Bomb.'
As for the helicopter... In the book they flew at a safe height and lowered ferrets in cages on a rope to discover the extent and shape of the anomaly. Now that was a good idea, but I imagine current sensibilities re. cruelty to ferrets would make it unacceptable in a modern version. So glad the horse wasn't hurt when it fell over...
The recent BBC attempt at 'The War of the Worlds' was an attempt at an in-period TV version and it failed dismally. I can't imagine that an in-period version of 'The Midwich Cuckoos' would be any more successful. For me, it remains to be seen whether the re-imagining will prove relevant or perhaps just entertaining.
The idea of doing an in-period version of WOTW was a good idea but they mucked about with the plot too much
Same as........and ALL women of child bearing age find themselves pregnant whether they want to be ..................or not!!!!!