Cucumber - channel 4 at 9:00pm - Gay drama - Good or a flop?

trinidadone

Channel 4 aired there first episode of cucumber last Thursday - a gay drama involving a death, a threesome, two police cars and Bony M.

Did anyone watch???

Gripping stuff???? positive images of black / gay / middle aged men????

or two much body parts, too much sex before 11pm, and a flop???

JReacher1

I didnt watch it but I think I read there are several different shows interlinked. Is one called Banana? I can't remember the others.

Shows like this show great daring and get reviewed well critically but they do tend to flop as they don't appeal to a wide audience.

duchy

trinidadone wrote: »

, too much sex before 11pm,

The watershed is 9pm not 11pm

Didn't watch it - I prefer my drama to be inclusive not exclusive to any one group -bit like real life is !

paddyrg

It's Russell T Davies, so it's going to be camp but exploratory. He's the guy who resurrected Dr Who, and has some interesting ideas including this one split over 3 networks Cucumber/Banana/Tofu

Collabora

personally i never watched it, but i think the 9pm Watershed is pointless these days as all channels apart from BBC have +1 channels and then you have iplayer, 4oD, itvplayer etc. so programmes can be watched at any time of day

duchy

Indeed they do but aren't all password protected if you want to watch a after 9pm broadcast before 9pm ? Certainly works that way with Virgin.

Collabora

duchy wrote: »

Indeed they do but aren't all password protected if you want to watch a after 9pm broadcast before 9pm ? Certainly works that way with Virgin.

not on a PC, well i have never been asked

Red*Dragonfly

Collabora wrote: »

not on a PC, well i have never been asked

You just click a button that says 'yes I'm over 16', like thats going to stop anyone

hollydays

trinidadone wrote: »

Channel 4 aired there first episode of cucumber last Thursday - a gay drama involving a death, a threesome, two police cars and Bony M.

Did anyone watch???

Gripping stuff???? positive images of black / gay / middle aged men????

or two much body parts, too much sex before 11pm, and a flop???

You also posted. The thread about the mcdonalds security guard who told a gay man not to kiss another.

Do I detect a theme here?

trinidadone

I just watched the first episode of banana. I think that was on thursday also. I thought cucumber was challenging enough, but banana seem to push the boundry more.

I know most who have contributed on this thread, have not seen cucumber or banana, but instead, have focused on the watershed. I will be really interested in hearing from others who actually seen the two dramas. Banana seem to focus on the young crowd, but with connections with cucumber. Were there any complaints?

tomtontom

trinidadone wrote: »

I just watched the first episode of banana. I think that was on thursday also. I thought cucumber was challenging enough, but banana seem to push the boundry more.

I know most who have contributed on this thread, have not seen cucumber or banana, but instead, have focused on the watershed. I will be really interested in hearing from others who actually seen the two dramas. Banana seem to focus on the young crowd, but with connections with cucumber. Were there any complaints?

What did you think of it?