1990

A slow-burning, talky thriller that immerses you in a grey, paranoid bureaucracy where every conversation feels like a quiet act of resistance.

Created by

Wilfred Greatorex

Genres

Drama

Starring

Edward Woodward, Robert Lang, Lisa Harrow

Overview

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

How it feels

Tense, dark, earnest and bleak. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Power, corruption, freedom, politics

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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