Starring Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Maxine Peake, Rebecca Hall, David Morrissey, the Red Riding Trilogy originally aired on CH4 in 2009, over 3 hour–and–a–half weekly episodes.

Adapted from David Peace’s morally complex and sprawling quartet of books (1974, 1977, 1980 & 1983), this was epic TV made with guts.

Laying bare an England that was never innocent, set amongst a backdrop of common–law misogyny and paranoia, where bent cops, bent councilors, bent priests, troubled newspaper hacks, petrified rent–boys and a public mingle in fear and awe at the Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe) – the brutal ruler of people’s day and nightmares.

Here, the glasses are less rose–tinted and more murkily smeared by cig’ smoke and political pollution.

Grisoni and the three directors – Julian Jarrold (1974), James Marsh (1980) and Anand Tucker (1983) – may well have been constructing a comment on the twisted times we live in now, where corruption is a by–law of capitalism: something to be celebrated and proudly passed–on in the eyes of the powerful elites.

Join us for the day/night as we discuss these timely themes and threads relating to the landmark TV series itself.

Let TWH throw you back to the bleak future.