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Old 23-04-2008, 12:47 AM
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I was browsing Amazon.com and came across this Mini series starring Christopher Eccleston. I can't ever remember seeing this on TV ,so I had a quick look on the IMDB and it has quite a favourable write up.
I just wondered whether anybody had seen it ,and whether you consider it worth watching ?

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I was browsing Amazon.com and came across this Mini series starring Christopher Eccleston. I can't ever remember seeing this on TV ,so I had a quick look on the IMDB and it has quite a favourable write up.
I just wondered whether anybody had seen it ,and whether you consider it worth watching ?
I liked it and would definitely say it was worth watching.

How would the modern world react to a real second coming? How would they treat someone who really could work miracles?

An interesting premise for a film (or a TV movie) and very well handled

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Especially interesting if you have followed Russell T Davies' career as it has many of his favourite actors (Lesley Sharp and Mark Benton as well as Eccleston) and is set in Manchester like several of his other shows and is full of his particular obsessions. He's a devout atheist (Richard Dawkins is guesting in this season's Who) which definitely informs the show. Not perhaps one to love - I found the second episode quite hard to watch but one of the more interesting and demanding min-series of the last few years and certainly a lot better than most of those ITV two-parters where a Mysterious Stranger moves in next-door to a middle-class coupleand shatters their cosy lives.
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Maybe, but that also sounds like dozens of BBC "Plays for Today", way back in the Seventies ! (e.g. Brimstone and Treacle)

Is this an obsession of British TV writers ?
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I love this!

There are some very moving scenes which sent shivers down my spine. All the actors are superb too!

I would highly recomend it if you like to watch drama with philosophical content, but it is quite easy viewing at the same time, not hard work.

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I liked it and would definitely say it was worth watching.

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An interesting premise for a film (or a TV movie) and very well handled

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I love this!

There are some very moving scenes which sent shivers down my spine. All the actors are superb too!

I would highly recomend it if you like to watch drama with philosophical content, but it is quite easy viewing at the same time, not hard work.

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Thanks for the quick responses ,It looks like a thumbs up from your opinions so I've just ordered it from Play.com
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