Waking the Dead is a BBC TV programme following the work of a special police team who investigate "cold cases"; usually murders that took place a number of years ago that were never solved. The team is led by Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), a hard-edged, quick-thinking and generally efficient policeman. Psychological Profiler Grace Foley (Sue Johnston, who often spends as much of the episode counselling Boyd as working on the case), Forensic Pathologist Frankie Wharton (Holly Aird) and the two Detectives Mel Silver (Claire Goose) and Spencer Jordan (Wil Johnson) are also regular members of the unit. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Trevor Eve (b. ... Sue Johnston (born 7 December 1943 in Warrington, Cheshire, England) is a British actress. ... Having been discovered at the age of nine, Hollys grown up around cameras and film sets. ... Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. ...
The show has so far aired for four series, and the website stated that a fifth will be broadcast in 2005. It has won numerous awards for its writing and production, for example the third series won an International Emmy. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... An Emmy Award. ...
But the relationship it draws between these two people, living and dead, is rendered with such tenderness and detail that there's never any question whether or not Fielding is wrong, or crazy, or able to move on.
Not so in "Waking The Dead" - every single time we move back or forward in time, Gordon pastes a cringe-inducing year title on the screen, apparently uncertain that the fade-to-whites between each time period are enough to clue us into the fact that we're in the past or the present.
In addition to these petty-yet-important complaints, "Waking The Dead" has a larger problem in that by focusing so sharply and lovingly on Fielding and Sarah's relationship, it ignores the supporting characters.
Waking the Dead, based on the novel by Scott Spencer (which I have not read), rehashes many of Mother Night's themes, including the notion that true love gone is always welcome back.
The smoothly non-linear Waking the Dead reconstructs her relationship to Fielding (first glimpsed reacting tearfully to a news report of Sarah's death) from there, intercutting their utterly truthful byplay with Fielding's lonely run for congress almost a decade later.
Waking the Dead's 5.1 Dolby Digital mix has the edge on Mother Night's, however, thanks to better-equalized dialogue and a spooky, bassy, omni-directional sound montage early on in Fielding's paranoia.
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