The Escape Artist

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So when I was flying back on British Air from the London convention in February, I watched the first half of an incredibly gripping drama called “The Escape Artist” starring David Tennant as a defense lawyer who has never lost a case. But his life and family fly apart when he defends a psycho who, once freed on a technicality, turns his attention to Tennant.

The first half was marvelous, and then I discovered that British Air didn’t have the second half on their entertainment system. So when I came home, I tried to find it on DVD. No luck. I looked on line. No luck.

Four frustrating months later, it suddenly turned up on public television. Even better, it’s on DVD.

Go get your hands on it. It’s fantastic.

PAD

6 comments on “The Escape Artist”

  1. Thanks for the suggestion, Peter. It sounds a bit like Cape Fear. I’ll be sure to look for that one.

    Also, thanks for posing with Will Sliney for the Wikipedia article on Spidey 2099 on Sunday at Special Edition NYC. In addition to that article, some of the other photos I took that day (I’ve only uploaded a few of the 400 or so I took during the entire con) are at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2014_Special_Edition_NYC_-_Day_2

    And the photos from the Marvel: Next Big Thing panel, on which you sat, are at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marvel:_Next_Big_Thing_panel_at_2014_Special_Edition_NYC

    Thanks again!

  2. I watched that when it was on in the UK. Gruelling but ultimately very satisfying. Although the show made me wonder how many defence lawyers in real life just switch off their sense of morality the way the girl barrister did? (And indeed David Tennant at the beginning.)

    And all from a refusal to shake hands. Found that vey chilling. Marvelously tense story though.

  3. I’m definitely checking this out, but I need to finish Broadchurch first.

    I love these BBC miniseries! I watched What Remains a few months ago.

  4. It is a brilliant story, but the denouement hangs on a peculiarity of Scottish law, which i don’t think exists in American law and certainly does not in England and Wales.

    Without giving anything away, it makes it a much darker tale for that reason.

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