Review of Rain Dogs

I'm afraid that the opportunity for the BBC to show something dark and humorous has been utterly wasted here. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that the writer of this series has a theatrical background, because most comments I've heard from people seem to reference some of this country's greatest modern playwrights, directors and screenwriters (Pinter, Leigh, Loach), but never in a positive comparison. It is, of course, possible to balance comedy with tragedy, but, in this case, the social realism is laughable and the comedy is non-existent. (Really, very poor sixth-form college creative-writing course standard.) It is particularly heart-breaking to see Daisy May Cooper involved in this project, especially when her own series "Am I Being Unreasonable?" was such a triumph. One further criticism would be about the ludicrous depiction of a gay man; as one myself, I'd rather the writer stuck to something she knows something about... perhaps a third-rate writer, for example.