[pressgang] Episode 5: A Night In

[Katarina Hjärpe]

Den lör 19 feb. 2022 kl 02:02 skrev Vince Deehan <vince.deehan at gmail.com>:

>
> The episode starts with Lynda handing out yellow chits (love that word
> ‘chits’),
>

I can't recall ever seeing the word used that way (just in the "chit of a
girl" sense). Is it common? ESL curiosity!



> which means she wants people to work a late duty from 5:30pm till 10pm on
> a Saturday night. It’s something she only asks them to do once a month, but
> on a Saturday night!! Are you being serious, Lynda? These are teenagers.
> Most of them would have better things to do. Though Sarah seems keen to
> spend her Saturday evening catching up on homework. I personally spent most
> of my Saturday evenings as a teenager sitting at home, but that’s another
> story.
>

When I was in high school, I remember that a new musical quiz show started
on a Friday night, and I watched it but assumed that none of my classmates
would, since they were probably out partying. Turns out, a whole lot of
them had seen it! I think teenagers tend to believe that everyone else has
a more active social life than they do. :-)

I remember a newspaper column a while ago that was seriously worried
because the new generation aren't going out for sex, drugs, and
rock'n'roll, instead they're staying home watching TV with their parents!
However shall they cope?



>
> It’s interesting to hear Spike talk about his Mum and Dad. Though the line
> he says about his Dad thinking “that apologising is what your wife does if
> you hit her enough”, is really shocking and no way would that line be used
> in a children’s drama today.
>

I think it could have been, but it wouldn't pass without comment the way it
is here. There would be a whole thing about Spike growing up in an abusive
home, and if it was ever implied that Spike had anything in common with his
father, it would be in a much darker way.


> I wonder what it was like to film that meal scene. They may have been sick
> to their stomachs having to eat all that food, over multiple takes.
> Hopefully it was still warm and they didn’t mind too much.
>

OT, but that reminds me of an anecdote from the Swedish film Docking the
Boat/Att angöra en brygga. There's a scene where a guy eats crayfish that
took three days to film. By the third day, the smell was repulsive and it
took a lot of acting to look happy even pretending to eat.

Katta
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