This City is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas

This City is Ours is a highly superior Scouse Dallas , starring Sean Bean .

The show is set in the heart of a criminal gang whose chief source of income comes from drugs.

The details are just right, something that helps to make Butchard ’s script convincing.

But I rail against the early killing off of a principal character.

(“I’m not standing here getting lectured as well as f

ing sunburnt,” he shouts at Michael , who’s asking too many post-execution questions.) He is a simple man, and a brutal one, his desires played out to the gentle sound of Perry Como and Matt Monro . This City is Ours BBC One [See also: Munch the social animal].