[pressgang] Episode 7: How To Make A Killing - Part 1

[Katarina Hjärpe]

Kids' tv definitely seems grittier back in the 80s/90s; admittedly mine
> mostly watch Netflix / CBeebies / Disney+, so perhaps there is still
> grittier stuff out there on CBBC - but even when I think of e.g. Tracy
> Beaker, it's much more gentle than kids' deaths from drug abuse. Still, I
> guess today's youth have got actual war and plague to contend with, so
> perhaps we shouldn't begrudge them some escapism.
>

I don't know about that - the kids at my work, even the younger ones, are
into Squid Game, IT, Metro 2033... What age group would you say Press Gang
is for? I always saw it as a teen show, in which case I would say it's a
lot more innocent than something like Riverdale or The Society. But I
suppose it could be argued that it's more of a tween show, maybe comparable
to something like Julie and the Phantoms, where death plays a major but
somewhat more sanitized part.



> The episode begins with someone, presumably Danny the photographer, taking
>> some very well composed and artful black and white shots of a school
>> girl drawing a chalk outline on the ground. The school girl is wearing what
>> is very recognisable to most UK viewers as a private school uniform. The
>> two clues are the colour of her blazer and the hat she is carrying. Private
>> (aka pay-feeing schools) usually have much brighter coloured school
>> uniforms. I always thought this made them a sitting target for abuse and
>> heckling from any state school children they may encounter on their way to
>> and from school. The hat is the other clue. I think it’s probably just for
>> the girls, but I have never seen a state school which had a hat as part of
>> the uniform. I still see schoolchildren today wearing these private school
>> uniforms. I wonder if they feel at all self conscious and horribly exposed.
>> I know I would.
>>
>
School uniforms in general are a very foreign concept to me, so this is
very interesting to read about!

Katta
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