Genre: TV Series
Grade: A+
Notable People: Agnes O’Casey, Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan, Tom Varey Created by: Sarah Solemani
Title: Ridley Road
Review: another wonderful book adaptation from PBS Masterpiece- this is a four-part miniseries focused on the post-was Fascist movement in England in the early 60s. O’Casey makes her striking debut as a sheltered British girl from Manchester, who sneaks to London for her adolescent fantasy lover and winds up deep in with her splendid Nazi-fighting Jewish uncle masquerading as a tailor (the always magnificent Marsan). It’s a frightening look at the staying power of the Nazi movement in Europe juxtaposed with the emergence of the swinging sixties in its London birthplace. Mini-skirts meets madmen. A four-part one-time series well worth a watch.