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

Granma2213 I am enjoying His Dark Materials , which I read many years ago. Like you, I think it would be quite difficult without having read the books and, yes, Mrs Coulter is well cast.

Thoroughly enjoying all the programmes on Sunday. From Country File through to War of the Worlds. Some I've saved to Monday - Tuesday.

His Dark Materials and War of the Worlds are brilliant.. Great interpretations of the books, all of which I have read a few times.

It's not age thing1 I'm 70 and a massive fantasy / sci fi fan.

War of the Worlds - more gloom and doom, dark, dismal and over dramatic. Not for me. The over use of CGI effects looked out of place in the Edwardian setting. Sadly, I feel the actors have been let down by the post production team who are trying to turn this into a Hollywood movie.

Were we really supposed to take The War of the Worlds seriously?

It was ridiculous and felt like a very low budget production.

We hung it out until the end in the hope that things might improve but sadly they didn’t.

Poor old Woking, eh.
War of the Worlds and Woking Pizza Express