and alan bleasdale has not given an interview for like 20 years and said this is all still relevant.desperate for meaning, desperate for work, but i've been reading comments with people sort of locally as well, saying why can't we have something about now? and i did feel watching it, that it was very much a period piece, like even some of the comedy and the guy that's replacing , i mean, bernard hill replacing, i mean, bernard hill is very hard to top, but barry sloane has a very good go at it, andifs sloane has a very good go at it, and it's the whole gissa job gives it into everyone's face, whether it's a priest or a man doing the white lines around a football pitch or whatever it might be. he thinks he can do it. he's terrible at everything, but he's also having this whole he's like, this big head butting man having an existential crisis as well about he's just i want to be seen. he's desperately cares about his children. there's a painful twist at the end about that, but i just it didn't quite land for me. and the humour is a little bit broad andifs the humour is a little bit bro