And it started so well
Opening with The Faders is obviously a good thing, shame the adaptation of Julie Burchill’s Sugar Rush kind of got worse from there. Well, that’s not entirely fair. It did have all the ticks of annoying Channel 4 dramas (I guess it saves having to pay a composer, but soundtracking TV shows entirely from pop music collapses the emotional palette of a programme to familiar cliches), but parts of the underlying structure were interesting, I thought. It’s good to be reminded that my affection for Julie Burchill isn’t just Cornishness, but is based on her having real talent which she does, ocassionally, display. Her hope that the show would outrage middle-England does seem charmingly naive, but I suspect she had intended the programme to be shown in the As If/Hollyoaks slot, where it might have been a little more controversial (it was, in fact, made by the same people as As If). Still, ten episodes? Checking Amazon, that works out at one episode for every 25 pages of the book; seems a little unnecessary.
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