{"id":2607,"date":"2012-07-23T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2012-07-25T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T13:35:44","slug":"martina-coles-the-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"Martina Cole&#8217;s The Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sS67eyh8yuM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I watched all four episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/sky1.sky.com\/show\/the-take-4\">The Take<\/a> over two evenings as it was available in HD on Virgin On Demand.  It&#8217;s the story of two cousins who are a part of the East End&#8217;s criminal network and their girlfriends.  <\/p>\n<p>The plot spans 10 years from 1984.  I especially loved watching the fashions, hairstyles, decor, music etc change through the decade.  There is a lot of violence and bad language but it doesn&#8217;t feel gratuitous.  It all felt a bit like Lock, Stock and Smoking Barrels, but without the humour.  The main character, Freddie Jackson, is a criminal psychopath and most of the shocking behaviour comes from him.  Tom Hardy, who plays him, is incredibly menacing, though I couldn&#8217;t take him 100% seriously as he had what I think of as a comedy cockney accent.  Still, I liked The Take a lot.  It&#8217;s very stylish and, while the plot is very slightly ridiculous, it&#8217;s a cracking story.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched all four episodes of The Take over two evenings as it was available in HD on Virgin On Demand. It&#8217;s the story of two cousins who are a part of the East End&#8217;s criminal network and their girlfriends. The plot spans 10 years from 1984. I especially loved watching the fashions, hairstyles, decor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}