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"Well, it continues the grand BBC tradition of casting middle class mid twenty-something drama school graduates as young working class teenagers so we were on familiar ground from the start. I hope the success of the talented and genuinely young cast in <i>Stranger Things</i> (whatever you might think about that show as a whole) might cause British casting directors to reconsider this policy. The dialogue was excruciating. All pontification and laborious exposition delivered in perfect uninterrupted sentences topped and tailed with sub-par Moffat style sit-com zingers. Has the writer ever listened to real South London teens' speech patterns? Maybe it's imperceptible to non-British ears but those RP accents made me want to kick the screen in. The characterisation was heavy handed and cliched (Yes I know very diverse. Well done BBC. But really in 2017 we shouldn't have to remark about that). So we got 'the swot one' , 'the jock one', 'the gay (or is he just alien?) one', the Gayliens date, and, gawd help us, 'the girl one'. some hastily sketched Shadowbaddies with no motivation other than they're Shadowbaddies. Oh and yes the immensely irritating (but to be fair excellently acted) Moffatty smart talking dominateacherix. \nI'm going to need a little more convincing to venture beyond the first episode I'm afraid."
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