Drunk, skinhead, prison screw, Stephen Graham understands broken men
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By Benji Wilson
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Tension in television is supposed to come from cliffhangers, plot switchbacks and the dripfeed of character secrets. Yet in British writer Jimmy McGovern’s
Time, a three-part prison drama, the tension comes from the inevitable.
It is inevitable that Stephen Graham’s prison officer Eric McNally will do the wrong thing to protect his son. It is inevitable that Sean Bean’s Mark Cobden, an alcoholic teacher who killed a cyclist while drunk at the wheel, will at some point stand up for himself against the vicious bully who calls him “Grandpa” and keeps nicking his lunch. It’s just a question of when, and how, these good men will break bad.
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