Strong stuff about Bosnia-Serbia conflict in Peter Berry's story (another writer without much on his CV), which makes Jane - and thus us too - look at cleaners differently. The King's Speech Tom Hooper directs Mirren, Liam Cunningham, Velibor Topic (good), Oleg Menshikov (also good as the name-changing optician), Ben Miles, Mark Strong. I'm not quite sure who Olegar Fedoro played but he debuted in Stalker!
She always gets her man, and manages to upset Scotland yard into the bargain.
Helen was nominated for an Emmy for this (but won for the Scent of Darkness and the final film) and episodes 2, 3 and 5. The British Academy gave her the award three years running for the first three (you can imagine how the other nominees were feeling in the 1994 ceremony!) and she was nominated for The Lost Child, Errors of Judgement and this one.
After a seven year break we are finally in 16:9. Larry Smith (The Guard, Calvary, Nemesis) shot it with a somewhat distracting overuse of wide lenses.
We also learn conclusively how to pronounce Duscan Zigic (Duzhan Zhigich).
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