Peter Carlisle - Blog Posts

Blackpool was ... very good.

It’s a bizarre little show but I highly recommend it and you can watch it all in an afternoon.

It’s a musical but not a musical, and a murder mystery but not a murder mystery and there are barely any characters (apart from Detective Blythe and Hallworth bless them) who were completely bad or good all the way. In fact, the two male leads were so completely bang in the middle of morally grey that I still don’t know what I think of either of them and I don’t think I’ll ever figure it out.

When I say it’s a murder mystery but not a murder mystery I really mean it. That’s the premise, but there’s honestly a whole other show with the exact same premise where we actually focus on the detective who cares about solving the case, and that’s certainly not what this show is.

It’s a brilliant character study with no straight questions or answers that focuses on people you’re cheering one minute and disgusted by the next and it’s honestly just ... excellent.

An excellent, crazy, bizarre, little show.

It was 20 years ago today!..

The first episode of Blackpool was aired on the BBC on 11 November 2004.

I can't even start to tell how much I love that show.

I rewatched Blackpool a couple of months ago, replaying many scenes over and over again, and thought I was being very, very observant... I even noticed a poster for an obscure Russian film (starring Mayakovsky, of all people) on Steve's bedroom wall!

But how could I have possibly missed THIS?!

Blackpool (2004) - Episode 3

Who would have thought unscrupulous could be so hot? I've got a feeling that a proper rewatch is long overdue.

so I've started watching blackpool and became slightly obsessed with Peter Carlisle

i made some gifs from episodes 1 and 2:

my skruncle<3

the infamous eating scenes

he's so me there.

i honeslty don't know how to classify those

and finally, HE WAS INSANE FOR THIS