Little Boy Blue (ITV)

Not sure I'll be able to watch this. It looks very harrowing. I may wait and see what others say about it.

This was so dramatic and even more emotional as its based on real events.

The scene where a man came to the door to tell Rhys' mother he'd been shot was brilliantly done. You saw her run into the kitchen to grab her keys and phone and then leave the house, jump in the car, travel down to the field and then run to the field in one shot. It was so much more tense to have it all in one shot instead of cutting between her and the driver or watching her exit the car, we were following her in every step of the discovery and it made it all the more heartbreaking

There's a Canadian show called 19-2 who did a brilliant one shot that lasted for about 14mins where the camera followed a cop in a school shooting, then at a crossroads the camera would fork off and follow someone else. Again it worked so well because it felt like you were following in their footstep




Also during the scenes in Little Boy Blue, where they're trying to save Rhys, were the doctors and nurses real? Because they didn't feel like actors. I've watched a fair few medical dramas, from over the top US, to soapy British and the more dramatic stuff and it felt like I was watching 24hrs In A&E. I don't know if they got real doctors and nurses and just told them to do it for real, as if it was a real situation and just filmed them like a documentary....oh just noticed on the credits that one of the doctors in the emergency room is down as Dr in the credits so he was real, I'm sure some of the nurses were as well and The paramedic seemed real too.

I thought this was very well done, very moving.  And I had the same impression about the medical team being authentic too.

I remember that episode,of 19-2, it was really tense!

Which scene was that?  (I know the episode pretty well.) 

Crikey! -> www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/teenager-gunned-down-near-rhys-jones-murder-scene-while-little-boy-blue-drama-aired/ar-BBAnhQ0?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

I thought this first episode was excellent.I had tears in my eyes when the Everton supporters clapped to show their support for Rhys & his family.

I caught up with the first episode yesterday and thought it was very movingly portrayed.

One bit that really annoyed me was the police woman not allowing Rhys' mother to touch him in the mortuary. FGS, he had been handled by over a dozen paramedics and hospital staff, not to mention people at the scene of the crime, for more than an hr and a half. Plus, at that stage (ie the next day), the police already knew he had not been touched by his attackers, so why be so coldly insistent? Yes, you want to give yourself the best chance of solving the crime, but the family should come first. It is they who have to live with the last memories of their son for ever.

The whole episode oozed menace, didn't it? I really felt for the lad who the gun was dumped on. How awful that we have teens growing up in such fear of their peers.

Apparently, once the case was solved, the detective in charge was told he was to be demoted. How ungrateful is that? Shocking way to treat a dedicated and talented officer. (He chose to take early retirement instead, at his current rank.)