1/1/2023 0 Comments Murder in the alps chapter 2Much like Peaky Blinders, it’s a highly stylised piece, full of swaggering music cues (lots of AC/DC), operatic violence and lyrical dialogue (“necks are a gift, God’s ultimate mistake”). There’s Connor Swindells’s David Stirling, a hard-drinking English posho with a contempt for authority Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen), a Welsh Guards commando fighting on the front line in the besieged city of Tobruk, Libya and Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell), a mercurial lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles whose introductory scene sees him knocking out three men with nothing but a bible. Set in North Africa during the Second World War, it tells the story of how three disillusioned officers devised a daring plan to parachute behind German enemy lines. “Those events depicted, which seem most unbelievable… are mostly true.” It’s a punchy opening for a punchy show: a macho, rock ’n’ roll retelling of the origins of the Special Air Service, Britain’s elite military unit. SAS Rogue Heroes BBC One, 9pm “Based on a true story,” reads the inscription before SAS: Rogue Heroes, the new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
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