Very,very good. Forget the Dennis Potter comparisons as this is very different. Hard to believe when people suddenly start singing and dancing, but "Blackpool" feels very real to me. Potter is art,this is entertainment. No-one in this show is perfect and that just makes it better (and certainly more surprising). Ripley Holden is a violent bully who treats his wife like dirt BUT he is incredibly funny. DI Carlisle starts off as the typical scruffy copper who will eventually get his man but he starts to compromise more and more. And Natalie is the perfect wife, mother and charity worker who has an affair. I love 'Blackpool' for it's music, humour, and its complex relationships. The only flaw seems to be that Danny is shown as a suicidal drug dealer who almost beats his future brother-in-law to death (with a brick!) and is the murderer BUT inherits the arcade and goes unpunished. But perhaps that is the point. Like father, like son.
Review of Blackpool
