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sfletcher26's review
5.0
First screened by the BBC in 1982 Boys from the Blackstuff is a series of legend in the UK. Its strangely though one I've never seen as at the time I was too young to watch it and I don't think the BBC have ever repeated it since (shame on them). I do though remember hearing on school playgrounds at the time countless kids immitating Yosser Hughes' liverpudlian accent yelling, "giz a job, go on giz it", and "I can do that".
Blackstuff is a series of 5 plays telling the story of a group of unemployed and unemployable everymen in Liverpool during a period of social and economic turmoil precipitated by the recession of the time. Dealing with issues of unemployment, poverty, the breakdown of the family, class, social service provision and the heartlessness of the DoE (Department of Employment) this was a hard hitting and emotional series.
These five plays are as potent and incendiary today as they were at the time and really deserve to be re-shown.
Blackstuff is a series of 5 plays telling the story of a group of unemployed and unemployable everymen in Liverpool during a period of social and economic turmoil precipitated by the recession of the time. Dealing with issues of unemployment, poverty, the breakdown of the family, class, social service provision and the heartlessness of the DoE (Department of Employment) this was a hard hitting and emotional series.
These five plays are as potent and incendiary today as they were at the time and really deserve to be re-shown.
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