Omari media blog 2

  Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of  Deutschland 83  in the reviews. - American-German husband-and-wife team Anna and Joerg Winger created an irresistible export: a funky exercise in pop nostalgia underpinned by actual events. - An international success story, with rave reviews, bloggers  celebrating its fashion  and  soundtrack , and impressive viewing figures, even in the US.  - Though very much an international package, it has been a bigger comparative hit abroad than at home. Massive hype only generated 3 million viewers for its co-maker RTL (just above the channel’s average). It was beaten by  The Voice  on the other side. I wonder if Germany’s sense of nostalgia is more complicated and less commodified than ours ... 2) Why does the second Guardian article sug

Reviews and features Read the following review and feature on  Capital : Guardian review by Sam Wollaston London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about  Capital 1) What positive points does the review pick out about  Capital ?  What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? "The cast is brilliant" "It’s based on an acclaimed novel" "The TV adaptation is set in present day" "It will ring true for a lot of Londoners" "It’s far more gripping than a drama about the property market sounds" 2) What references can you find in the reviews and feature to the idea Capital is a 'state-of-the-nation' drama? How does it capture modern-day London? "It’s all so instantly recognisable. I live in the capital, in a street from a similar era, though in a far less salubrious area (house prices, obviously still insane, but about a third of Pepys Road). We have pretty much that exact shop." Trailer an