Two words: Green Wing
Posted on March 31, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour.
Tonight 9.00, Channel 4.
From the last series:
MAC to his surgical team: What can I tell you? A few ground rules. No bombing, no running, no petting, no diving and no inflatables. In fact, probably best to leave all swimming related activities until later ; this is after all, an operating theatre.
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6 Replies to "Two words: Green Wing"
patroclus on April 1, 2006
I thought exactly the same as you. I was a bit worried about it up to about halfway through. By the end I was alternately grinning like a lunatic and laughing uncontrollably. I may have actually rolled about on the floor at one point – possibly when Guy was describing his escape from the ambulance – “so I took off my dressing gown and wrapped it around my head like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean”.
I’ve always liked the speedy-up stuff myself, but I don’t think there were very many quality lines in the first half – it was all a bit too visual for me. I’m totally and utterly sold on it again now, though!
Frank on April 3, 2006
Agree with u again oh bald one. Statham has to be the Basil Fawlty of the 21st centuary. And a better use of a false arm hasn’t graced our screens since Zaphod. Still can’t remember why Mac ended up in a coma, probably due to the fact that I was nearly always pissed watching the last series at 11pm. The earlier start might mean that I remember more of this one….the invisible line accross the secretary’s office was another piece of surreal brilliance.
conor on April 3, 2006
It took me a while to figure out the coma thing too for exactly the same reason as yourself.
All I can remember is Guy going nuts over sleeping with his mother and an ambulance and a cliff. I think we have to imagine the other details. Either that or I missed an episode.
You should check out the Production Designers Blog. Some great photos:
Green Wing 2 Blog
patroclus on April 3, 2006
Speaking as someone who’s seen the first series *a lot* of times, we don’t know yet how Mac got into the coma. And I presume you’re aware of the GW writers’ blogs? (well, two of them):
conor on April 3, 2006
Dammit, I’ve been trying to keep the number of RSS subscriptions to under 200 (after touching 500 a few months back). This pushes me over again.
conor on March 31, 2006
Right, so what did people think?
I started getting worried about 10 minutes in that it was not as good as last years series. They seemed to be relying to much on the slomo-speedup stuff which I could happily do without. But it just got better and better as the episode progressed. The whole turkey baster thing was bizarre genius.
By the end of it, I was dying to see the next episode.