Broken (BBC1)

[jean]

Anyone watch this?

[gradus]

Yes and despite it's relentless gloom I thought it excellent drama, though I wasn't entirely convinced by the final scene but what a fine performance throughout from Sean Bean. A sequel series would be very welcome.

[eighthobstruction]

....yes, I really thought it had something going for it....thought it was generally excellent in all sorts of ways....Who'da thought Sean Bean had that in him....

[Braunschlag]

An excellent series indeed. I wasn't going to even give it a go until I caught some of it and then it pulled me in. Expecting some sort of anti-catholic bashing I was very pleasantly surprised at how it all turned out, a very sympathetic dramatisation of the challenges faced by a troubled priest.
Good to see St Francis Xavier in Liverpool as a suitable ecclesiastical backdrop, that's some building which was nearly abandoned but now has a new role thanks to the Jesuits.
I'm not a catholic by the way but I do like churches and buildings.

[jean]

Good to see St Francis Xavier in Liverpool as a suitable ecclesiastical backdrop, that's some building which was nearly abandoned but now has a new role thanks to the Jesuits.

Yes, it was good to see it!

I don't know what gave the Jesuits a change of heart, since it was always theirs (Gerard Manley Hopkins spent some unhappy years there). Liverpool Hope University's new campus in the old SFX school building (where Jimmy McGovern was educated) next to the Church must have helped:

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, it was good to see it!

I don't know what gave the Jesuits a change of heart, since it was always theirs (Gerard Manley Hopkins spent some unhappy years there). Liverpool Hope University's new campus in the old SFX school building (where Jimmy McGovern was educated) next to the Church must have helped:

I can imagine there not being many sprung mattresses in that establishment. Maybe that's where Hopkins' idea of sprung rhythms originated!

[jean]

No mattresses of any kind - it was always a day school!

Don't think GMH ever taught at the school. He might have been happier teaching poetry to the young men than ministering to the destitute of the area - he was not really a man in the mould of Father Michael.