Why have the Sunday night dramas on BBC One got so heavy?

Wash that mouth out with gin and tonic Gonegirl.....it’s all good stuff.
And who doesn’t wish that their soul was in the form of a talking animal?

Just watching Craith/Hidden. Very dark.

I'm with you gg. Refusing to watch WofTW again. Add to this The Name of the Rose, for more dismal viewing.

Dark Materials is wonderful. I'm with lemon, who doesn't want a daemon (my children reckon one of our dogs is my daemon)
It's so very very good and we have yet to meet the armoured bears.

I think a lot of the dramas have become too clever and probably millennials are involved so don't give a fig whether others get it or not. And of course everything has to be PC as well.

Oh is that what the animals are? Their souls. No wonder I couldn't read the daft books.

Heavy?
In past years we have had War and Peace, Vanity Fair amongst other classics.
How are “His Dark Materials” and “The War of the Worlds” ”heavy” ?

War of the Worlds is good. Poor old Woking. Not got a lot to recommend it at the moment.

Haven’t watched His Dark Materials, trailers with talking animals put me off. Watched first The Name of the Rose, no more. Have just watched WOTW, never read the book, not impressed. Thought Eleanor Tomlinson looked very pretty in her Edwardian clothes and hair do.

True about Woking merlot.

Just not my thing Maw. I will clear off and let others enjoy it though.

Call the Midwife will be back after Christmas, worth waiting for. (Woking town centre is currently being transformed. Will no doubt look good when it is done but what a mess right now. Don’t know if the pizza place will be saved or if any triffids about. Oops, sorry, wrong book).

Yes, I gave up on Name of the Rose.

Hooray. (Midwife)

I don't know about Woking, but the scenes in the woods in War of the Worlds were filmed here in Ainsdale (north of Liverpool). They made a bit of a mess of our nature reserve! (but I believe left money for it to be restored).

Totally with you gonegirl can’t be doing with talking animals my soul ain’t no animal ta

I think a lot of the dramas have become too clever and probably millennials are involved so don't give a fig whether others get it or not. And of course everything has to be PC as well.

What a nasty little comment.

How interesting that you put down millennials as being too clever...while suggesting everyone is dense?

Just insulting to everyone.

I love His Dark Materials, and just love the daemons. Spend half the programme wondering what my daemon would be or what it would be if I could choose my own. I quite fancy a wolf; I think a falcon would have suited late DH very well. Didn't bother with War of the Worlds.
Must admit that is the only drama on tv I am watching at the moment. Too much depressing drama and doom and gloom. Would love another Last Tango in Halifax!

Who actually are 'millennials' anyway? What does it mean?

Why is that a "nasty little comment"? Sounds alright to me.

Gonegirl, because it’s blatantly insulting to everyone?

It’s not ok to be nasty to those younger than you because they are younger.

Its also insulting to be told because I’m older than millennials that I don’t understand their shows.

Blatantly rude to everyone. But you know that. You just love being contrary, and any chance to get a dig in on those younger than you!

I thinkmillenials are getting on a bit now, one of my DC is apparently a millennial, born in 1982, 18 (of age) in 2000.
Mind you, she is very 'woke'

Vanity Fair - I missed that!

'ang on while I work out what you're on about.

I googled the definition of millennials but it's all beyond me.