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Poots is terrific, and has to be, because Trevor Eve can cast a mighty shadow, and I'm not just talking about his prodigious schnozzle. It's early days in Bouquet of Barbed Wire mark 2, and I imagine there's plenty of sex, sado-masochism and incestuous yearnings yet to come, but it won't have the nation earnestly discussing it in banks and at bus stops, in school corridors and supermarket aisles, like it did in 1976, not even with this Prue being a mere sixth-former (the Penhaligon version was at university). Times have changed, and we've changed with them. After all, an hour of telly in which a girl gets impregnated by her English teacher, whom she then marries to the fury of her creepily possessive father, who consoles himself by bonking a young colleague in his daughter's bed even as she, the daughter, is being beaten up by her new husband in their honeymoon cottage, could quite easily be any old omnibus edition of EastEnders. There was nothing in last night's opening episode of ITV's remake to make Imogen Poots, the new Prue, want to run for the hills with a posse of Mary Whitehouses yapping at her heels. That's probably true, but more to the point, these days the reaction would be, and indeed is, a lot more ho-hum.

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I just didn't understand how to deal with the intrusion into my private life.

'And yet a lot of the more salacious reaction seemed to land on me. 'Actually, I was one of the most moral characters,' she told me, still indignant after all those years. She told me, bitterly, that it had done something similar to her emotional equilibrium, the avalanche of public interest having landed squarely on her 26-year-old head. I told her that it had sent my 14-year-old hormones haywire.

“Bouquet of Barbed Wire” is a nasty, mesmerizing melodrama about the misdeeds in Peter’s past coming back to haunt him, but it’s the troubling relationship between him and his daughter that forms the heart of the series, as he sees himself involved in a rivalry to possess her (something neither he nor Gavin really have her permission to do).Eight years ago, I interviewed the actress Susan Penhaligon, ostensibly about a new play she was in, although of course the reason I was so familiar with her name, and what I really wanted to talk to her about, was the steamy 1976 adaptation of Andrea Newman's novel A Bouquet of Barbed Wire, in which she played Prue Sorenson. Gavin Sorenson (Tom Riley) is her English teacher, a contemptuous, aggressively working-class older man who seems to already know something about Peter - or is that just Peter’s paranoid projection on him? Gavin mocks Peter’s talk of Prue going to college as just “aspirational fantasies of her dear old dad” - because, he reveals in something like spiteful triumph, he’s gotten Prue pregnant, and she’s going to leave school to come live with him in his shabby tower block in Hackney. IndieWire’s Consider This Event Returns with ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Beef,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘P-Valley,’ and ‘Rise of the Pink Ladies’īut she is dating someone, who she introduces to her family at a doozy of a dinner.

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