New drama The Gallows Pole (BBC2, Weds, 9pm) aired on Wednesday and it's still difficult to make a definitive judgement on it.
And it illustrates that, when a community feels isolated, neglected, ignored, it will look after itself any way it can, regardless of the rules and conventions of the day.And this is where those anachronisms and the hallucinogenic weirdnesses of David's wanderings lift The Gallows Pole out of the period drama corset and brings it roaring into the modern era, with an immediacy and potency that would be lost with a load of thees and thous.
And Meadows humanises his characters brilliantly, with a scene between David and Gracie – the woman he left behind when he went to Birmingham – beautifully played, as their attempts to tauntingly belittle each other fail to hide genuine attraction.“What do you mean 'why not?'. Why haven't you got a wife?”
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