The Way review: The cast is a tremendous assembly of Welsh talent, but the show is a mess
TV and politics go together like chocolate souffle and a bag of broken glass. Which is to say that effective television is about subtlety, the drawing out of subconscious resonances, the tug on personal memory, while politics is the opposite: explicit, exterior, and exogenous. It’s this contrast that makes the BBC’s new three-part drama, The Way, about an uprising among Welsh steelworkers – such a risk. Will these delicate ingredients work together?
The steelworks: a crucible of industry and discontent. Two workers die in quick succession – the first in a). Rounding out the Driscoll cohort is the ghost of Geoff’s father, Denny, , who co-created the series.
