Ed Stafordshire 60 days on the estate

[asfault]

I find all his documentaries to be excellent. The one was the most realistic but this one is about the bottom end of society.

[popeyewhite]

I've watched his other stuff and enjoyed it. Thought the idea of a survival specialist going undercover to report on the dire state of one of the nation's grimier estates incredibly patronising so dodged it.

[LARK F1 GTR]

I've not seen this one, but I did see one of his Last Man Standing shows, he was there for about five minutes and said that he wanted to leave.
I turned it off.

[asfault]

It was good. Really makes you see and think once you are in that downward spiral how do you get out. Lots of it drug related.
Massive kudos to the kid from the Birmingham episode who lives part time with his mum abut mainly with his dad. His head was screwed on far beyond the wisdom of his years.

[Randy Winkman]

asfault said:

It was good. Really makes you see and think once you are in that downward spiral how do you get out. Lots of it drug related.
Massive kudos to the kid from the Birmingham episode who lives part time with his mum abut mainly with his dad. His head was screwed on far beyond the wisdom of his years.

I've seen the first two and I'm pretty certain I know who you mean. He was a good fella and if I recall correctly his mother seemed OK too. Some others seemed not so nice but invariably had problems that might explain why, so I found it hard to be too critical. The rather macho/aggressive guy that tried to get him to buy an expensive bottle of booze turned out to be quite sad. Probably explains why it seemed to be so important to him to be the top-dog of all those hanging around the shopping precinct. That looked like all he had.

[Lucas Ayde]

Thanks for the heads-up. His one-man survival shows were one of the more grounded examples of the genre. Will check this one out.

[768]

One of few people I see on TV these days who I think has really earned the right to be there.

I'm not sure about this series (watching the second episode now) or some of the other recent ones he's done for C4. It feels a little surface level, peering at the problems people have without offering any solutions. But that's not unique. I'll keep watching his stuff probably for as long as he keeps making it.