Hard Sun looked promising for starters, but by the time a couple of victims had expired in gruesome circumstances, it became clear that gratuitous violence was endemic, making up, one assumes for a plot that didn't stack up. Once Hard Sun was out of the bag, there was no way it could have been hushed up so conveniently as a hoax. What was the rest of the world doing? And what about all those goons doing the chasing. Didn't they have families? Female lead good in an offbeat way, but the male lead and the black baddie weren't even up to pantomime standard, as one famous critic remarked in different circumstances, "They exploited the whole gamut of emotions from A right through to B". Billed as something quite new to the BBC, the only sense in which that rings true is how abysmally bad was this production. Worst thing is, I helped fund it.
Review of Hard Sun
