I only watched this because I was born and bred in Brighton (1966). What a shame it wasn't actually filmed in Brighton! They did manage a few quick stock photos of the Pavilion and the bandstand but goodness knows where it was. I'm thinking maybe Hastings and part of it looked like they'd shoved some beach huts in a car park.
Anyway I did watch it all, I do like a bit of cockney rhyming slang as it seems to be dying out which is a shame. Some of it was quite funny and some of it was quite sad. What it wasn't was politically correct but the permanently offended brigade won't realise that they whole point was that although it put the characters in a bad light they genuinely didn't know they were being awful. The flashbacks showed that they had faced their own challenges which made them the way they were. A lot of it was fear and bravado.
Anyway I did watch it all, I do like a bit of cockney rhyming slang as it seems to be dying out which is a shame. Some of it was quite funny and some of it was quite sad. What it wasn't was politically correct but the permanently offended brigade won't realise that they whole point was that although it put the characters in a bad light they genuinely didn't know they were being awful. The flashbacks showed that they had faced their own challenges which made them the way they were. A lot of it was fear and bravado.