![]() Whether he can do that or not is up to Jann, but he can definitely replicate the tropes of the sport film. ![]() The foci is the true story of Jann Mardenborough ( Archie Madekwe), a talented player of the game who finds himself called upon to translate his virtual skills into the real world when an enthusiastic marketing exec for Nissan ( Orlando Bloom) decides to make video game racers into actual racers for fun and profit. Treading the well-covered ground of the sports film, the Gran Turismo movie isn’t interested in re-inventing either that genre or the video game adaptation merely blending the two into an untroubled, pleasing whole. Staggeringly good TV.Confident and competent, Neill Blomkamp‘s adaptation of the popular racing game is a 100-minute commercial for Sony which still manages to have more under the hood than you would expect. Lancashire’s performance is nothing short of awe-inspiring, but it’s the emotionally real, character-driving writing that brings these characters to life so beautifully, whether in humanising a monster as he reaches out to his son, or completely subverting established finale norms with a simple, heartfelt conversation held over a kitchen table. Arriving seven years after the previous series - Wainwright smartly delaying the show’s return until Ryan (Rhys Connah) was old enough to carry more of the dramatic weight - this not only saw Sergeant Cathering Cawood on the verge of retirement, but also brought her long-running conflict with criminal Tommy Lee Royce (a brilliant James Norton) to a head once and for all -prying open the cracks in her relationships with both Ryan and sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran) along the way. Sally Wainwright’s blisteringly good story of on-the-beat policing in Halifax was already top-tier television by the end of its first two series, but this third and final chapter proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that her show is an undisputed masterpiece.
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