The Mjolnir at the Movies crew does something a bit different this time, as we become Mjolnir at the Miniseries to tackle G.B.H. by Alan Bleasdale.
Originally broadcast in 1991 on Channel 4 and still viewable on their
website via the 4 on demand streaming service area, which works for UK IP
addresses, but otherwise of limited availability (DVDs might be
available in your area), the series is almost forgotten today, beyond some with good
taste and a memory for TV. An
impressive cast of well known British TV actors are included and some,
such as Michael Palin, will be recognized internationally. Lead
actors Michael Palin and Robert Lindsey both consider this to be the
best or one of the best things they've ever acted in, with Michael
specifically quoted as saying it was some of the most powerful acting
he's ever done. Well worth watching this series before or along with us
in these episodes if you can somehow. There will be spoilers! In the first of our episodes of this four-parter, we discuss why Bleasdale's miniseries, which is a critique of the Leftist politics of the time from a Leftist perspective has been pushed down the memory hole. Why indeed is the series an embarrassment to the Left? We also have a close analysis of Episode 1 of this seven-part series and begin to address some of the major themes....
The second installment, in which we analyse Episodes 2 & 3 of the miniseries, gives us
an excuse to address many aspects of Leftist politics, such as atheism
and equality as religiosities, Tony Benn and attitudes to aristocracy,
trade unions, the education system, class war and snobbery, attitudes to
corporal and capital punishment, the disparity between the Leftist elites and their electorate, and the hypocrisy of the Labour Party....
The third part of our look at Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. sees us take on Episodes 4 & 5 and includes such
themes as the great British holiday, the British class system, the
philosophical differences between the Left and Right, the Left's racial
politics, race riots, political subversion by MI5 and paramilitary terrorist lobby groups, the relationship between socialism and capitalism,
the divisions among the factions of the Left, the Left's hatred of the
white working class, and how the Left portrays the Right in fiction....
We finish off by looking in on episodes 6 and 7 in particular, which gives us an excuse
to address many aspects of Leftist politics, such as atheism and Marxism
as religions, the corrupt university system, the Left's perverse love
of cuckoldry, insanity, Leftist smugness and jazz, how the Left
deliberately created chaos with non-White immigration, Leftist nihilism,
anti-Nature and false environmentalism, and much more....
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