Counter-Currents
What’s the Matter? Don’t You Trust Me?
1991’s Chancer
Mark Gullick
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A TV series that captures an era will always be like one of those time capsules schoolchildren used to bury in their school grounds, a tin box full of examples of day-to-day objects and destined to lie unseen in the earth until someone digs it up decades – or even centuries – later and gets a glimpse of how people used to live. One such series was Chancer, ITV’s 1991, 12-part drama set in the England of the 1980s.
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Sounds like a jolly good romp. British dramas have always had a certain flair especially casting actors of appropriate age and appearance. Not many May December romance. I enjoy the crime dramas in Ireland and Scotland venues. The countryside v city adds to the atmosphere. I’m going to give this one a chance. Pun intended.
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