TV series

Shooting the Past

1999 · 1 season

Quiet, talky and gently hypnotic, it asks you to lean in as old photographs are made to feel urgently alive.

Tagline: Photographs that unlock the past... to fight for the future
Overview: A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, isolation, work, identity
Content: Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
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Full breakdown

Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
isolation
work
identity
class
Places: big city
workplace
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none