‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Review🔴: Peacock Series Is Overwhelmed by Britain’s Conspiracy-Heavy
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‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Review🔴 : Peacock Series Is Overwhelmed by Britain’s Conspiracy-Heavy Tragedy ✔ P B P✔ The destruction across Lockerbie, with debris crushing the town and leaving people’s homes in flames, is shown with brutal impact, as residents stand in shock at the wreckage of what was once their community. It’s a true vision of hell, with ash raining down from the skies and piles of bodies left in the ice rink for lack of more appropriate facilities. Bodies hang from trees. It’s a detailed and technically impressive set-piece that may nonetheless prove too much for those who remember the all-too-recent tragedy. Such is the eternal conundrum when depicting true-life events such as this: how far is too far in the name of combining reality with entertainment? Are scenes of dismembered limbs scored to dramatic strings at risk of turning this pain into something mawkish? The use of news footage from the era to show the accuracy of the production’s recreation only adds to the unease.
In the aftermath, Dr. Swire has no patience for the mandated peace of the mourning period. At a memorial service, he comes close to chewing out a politician whose non-answers infuriate him. While there, he meets Murray Guthrie (Sam Troughton), a local journalist with good intentions but iffy tactics, who serves as a handy expository vehicle for Swire. Guthrie eats chips in his car while listening to Deacon Blue, just so you know he’s really Scottish (perhaps a kilt would have been too much.) He becomes Swire’s right-hand man as well as the mouthpiece for the audience to get some of the trickier details of this very complex case. He’s also a fictional character created solely to fulfil this narrative purpose, which makes Troughton’s performance all the more misguided. He’s acting like the outsider journalist in a shady noir, sneaking into people’s homes to use their phones after scurrying through crime scenes and looking corpses in the eye. In a show that seems so earnest in its hunt for authenticity, often to a fault, this character seems like a mistake. Again, we come up against the intrinsic issues of fictionalizing history, one so recent that its details are still fresh in the minds of millions.