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On Monday night after dinner I looked through the offerings on TV but was disappointed that there was nothing that looked interesting. Mad Dogs, the British series about aging blokes on an adventure in Spain had finished the week before with no adequate replacement.
I settled on Criminal Minds having heard or read some hype about how good it was - award winning and all that. Boy it was crap. Bad acting, Bad writing. Bad Direction. Bad filming. I persevered for about 10 minutes and gave up in disgust. I looked through the DVDs that The Old Girl had brought down from our collection up North and was overjoyed to discover the full series of Cracker the outstanding Robbie Coltrane series written by Jimmy McGovern.

 Now this was something. I watched the 'Mad Woman in the attic' episode in two parts. I was gob-smacked. I hadn't seen this for quite a few years and it was still great. Good acting. Good writing. Good direction and good filming.
I feel sorry for our younger generation. They are seduced into watching rubbish that is dressed up in marketing hype which is really watered down versions of what has been produced before. This is not to say that all new stuff is rubbish as winessed by The sopranos, The Wire, Dexter and Treme (although all of these feature initially on HBO) but the other bullshit that is presented as quality drama is really forensic porn.