Imagine an old-fashioned British crime caper – or a Guy Ritchie one – in which most of the characters are an order of magnitude dumber. Welcome to The Curse.
Imagine an old-fashioned British crime caper – or a Guy Ritchie one – in which most of the characters are an order of magnitude dumber. It sounds like a recipe for a tiresome spoof, but this half-hour series quickly becomes a highly entertaining balance of comedy and drama – and more of a sincere homage than a satire.People Just Do Nothing, and it all goes down in the 1980s in a part of London’s East End that looks like a bomb site.“It was rough out there. The worst recession since the war.
With Davis standing a big-bellied six-foot-seven in the old money and speaking in a voice of almost subterranean depth, you can almost believe Big Mick’s tall stories about the time he fought George Foreman. He’s a man happily chewing the cud of his own myth, unencumbered by anything resembling awareness of his own shortcomings.
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