The Reckoning

[subsub]

1st episode last night.
Incredible performance by Coogan - very unsettling.

[Zambo]

Coogan was brilliant in the role.

[theleader82]

A good performance but not sure it was appropriate for the beeb to make this show.

[subsub]

A good performance but not sure it was appropriate for the beeb to make this show.

They didn't. It was made by ITV Studios.

[VeritasVincit]

Just watched the first episode. I persevered to the end but didn't enjoy it. I my well give the rest a miss.
Like subsub above I found it very unsettling.

Around 1962 he did a lunchtime session at Salford Technical college to help with Rag Week. He started with a recording of the students [girls] who went to his Salford flat to collect him. Lots squeals and giggles from the girls. Nobody thought anything bad about him, he was just an over-the-top 'character', throwing lots of money, from big rolls of notes he carried, into the Rag Week pot.
I worked with people who visited the dance halls where he DJ'd. They talked about him as a mad 'character' but nothing nasty.

[lambrini]

Coogan was brilliant in the role.

He's a great actor.

[Sadact7]

Sir Jimmy Savile.

One of Yorkshire’s finest. Born, bred and created in the streets of Leeds.

#TrueTyke

[lambrini]

Sir Jimmy Savile.

One of Yorkshire’s finest. Born, bred and created in the streets of Leeds.

#TrueTyke

The first episode is pretty good. Coogan captures Savile's likeness, but then, so he should, considering he is a northerner himself.
I found the BBC scene towards the end unbelievable. As if ONE person in the meeting was skeptical, and OF COURSE, she had to be a woman (the ol' men bad, women good trope.)

[Sadact7]

Coogan captures Savile's likeness, but then, so he should, considering he is a northerner himself.

Do we all look the same to you Ms Lambrini???

[lambrini]

Coogan captures Savile's likeness, but then, so he should, considering he is a northerner himself.

Do we all look the same to you Ms Lambrini???

Miss.

No.

[kancutlawns]

Did see some of Coogan’s dry laconic wit from Alan Partridge come through. He’s one of the few who was able to err pull Savile off.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Think there was more than a few MyLawns

[Jonathan]

Watched all of these. You do wonder why and how he could have got away with it all. Extremely well acted by Coogan.

[kancutlawns]

Watched all of these. You do wonder why and how he could have got away with it all. Extremely well acted by Coogan.

Only watched two and a half episodes so far but from what I've read about him elsewhere (may yet be covered in the series), it looked like he was well protected by the Leeds Police Authority and had a load of friends there who if police from other parts of the country raised suspicions about his behaviour he'd' get them onto the case and it wouldn't go anywhere. Also, from what was covered in the actual series, female nurses and PAs at the BBC expressed his misogyny, inappropriate behaviour and arrogance but they just weren't listened to as his stock rose with at Radio Luxemburg, etc. He just became too successful and a lot of the higher ups were impressed with that.

What didn't come across in the series from what I saw was just how well protected he was from the establishment. From what I saw, only a scene in his early days as a ballroom DJ when a young lad sneaked in without a ticket and Savile got his gopher to beat him up. The lad then told the police and the copper spoke Savile apologising for this and obviously taking his side and then said that like him he stood no nonsense and would take him back to the station to get him dealt with.

Very well acted, but it almost normalised Savile. There would have been yet more disturbing accounts of his story such as his necrophilia and widespread abuse of 5-75 year olds that may not have come across as being quite so systematic but as I said, I didn't see all the programmes.

[antdad]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 25219.html