Gotcha for the Guvnor (Sweeney, The)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Sweeney, The
Date:	31/08/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Gritty and realistic

Disadvantages: Getting rather dated

The Sweeney is a 70's coshow and at the time it was apparently seen as being ground breaking as it did not really show the police in the best of lights as they were portrayed as hard drinking womanisers who used violence to get confessions and were not beyond bending the law to get a conviction. So a bit like real life then lol.

The series focused on the London Flying Squad (Sweeney Todd is the rhyming slang from which the series gets its name after all you only use the first word in rhyming slang) and a Detective Inspector by the name of Jack Reagan played by the great John Thaw with his sidekick George being played by Dennis Waterman. They work on the robbery squad targeting the hardest of criminals and for some reason they all seem to be packing guns most of the time on both sides of the law.

Having just watched an episode on ITV4 the one thing you immediately notice is that everyone is smoking and instea of swearing you hear words like "slag (talking about a bloke not a woman)" and the like. The acting is pretty good although everything does look kinda dated now i is still a series which has some pretty good plot lines contained within a one hour format.

What I do like about this show is that it is a bit more like real life than some police shows as the bad guys do not always get caught and sometimes they get clean away with it which helps give the show a more realistic feel to it.

Summary: Police action series