Why E4’s crime mystery Glue, starting on the 15th of September, is more than just ‘Skins on tractors’…
Despite the obvious connections - it features a group of hedonistic, shagging, pilled-up youths and was created by former Skins writer Jack Thorne - E4’s Glue is a different beast to the channel’s flagship teen show. It’s an eight-part whodunit that repurposes the rural setting of TV’s cosy vet dramas and twee countryside tales into something poetic, dangerous, and sometimes quite beautiful.
Filmed around the village of Hungerford, Berkshire, Glue tells its story against a backdrop of barley fields, grain silos and paddocks. Don’t think that its depiction of rural life is bucolic though. In Glue’s working agricultural world, calves are slaughtered, machinery is treacherous, and stables house million pound investments, not race horses. Glue’s young protagonists aren’t part of a pastoral idyll...
Despite the obvious connections - it features a group of hedonistic, shagging, pilled-up youths and was created by former Skins writer Jack Thorne - E4’s Glue is a different beast to the channel’s flagship teen show. It’s an eight-part whodunit that repurposes the rural setting of TV’s cosy vet dramas and twee countryside tales into something poetic, dangerous, and sometimes quite beautiful.
Filmed around the village of Hungerford, Berkshire, Glue tells its story against a backdrop of barley fields, grain silos and paddocks. Don’t think that its depiction of rural life is bucolic though. In Glue’s working agricultural world, calves are slaughtered, machinery is treacherous, and stables house million pound investments, not race horses. Glue’s young protagonists aren’t part of a pastoral idyll...
- 9/11/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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