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Patience on Channel 4

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Did anyone watch 'Patience' on Channel 4 last night?

It's the UK remake of the French series, 'Astrid et Raphaelle', featuring a young autistic woman who works in criminal records. She has a photographic memory for cases and tries to insert herself into investigations.

Unlike the French series, the UK one (filmed in York) features autistic actors in all of the autistic roles. I've watched the French series, which I really enjoyed. 

My initial impressions of Patience is that it looks and feels quite different, and I really liked Ella Maisy Purvis as Patience. It seemed a much more natural performance than Sara Mortensen in Astrid.

It's on the Channel 4 streaming service and the second episode is on TV at 9pm tonight.

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  • Hi @Martyn et al :-)  As others have pointed out the support scene is potentially unsettling.  Nonetheless I am of the opinion that it is a presentation of several aspects of autism both in behaviours and experiences.   Perhaps that is why it is unsettling as it does resonate with autistic life.  Sometimes things need to be stirred up a bit to get things to happen.  Gratifyingly the group is able to support one another both individually and collectively.  At the risk of being clunky myself - it reflects this forum :-)

    I think the series is a good effort and I would give it 7/10 :-) with plenty signs such representations of autism are improving and can continue in that direction.

    As   highlights the view is very narrow - yes - Patience is an archetype in several senses of the word and , at the risk of being too clever about it, she is a presented as a source of wisdom conventionally and perhaps realistically unavailable to the neurotypical perspective. 

    As I analyse it, in the original Franco/Belgian program it took three series for the characters and plot to develop to roughly where the new series leaves it.   This gave more time for the viewer and the characters to develop insight and change perspective.  Also more time for some great sometimes whacky detecting and thought provoking stories :-)  This perhaps picks up on what  expresses about it being clunky and jumping forward too quickly.

    At the risk of being stereotypical about it, the new is nowhere near as sexy as the original one - hehe maybe the difference between being set in York instead of Paris!

    Also the way Patience is presented as being different in the UK version is in some ways more realistic and subtle - I reckon this has its pros and cons too.

    Overall I think that Channel 4 and the production team are to be applauded for the series however they have perhaps tried to "put a quart in a pint pot"

  • in reply to Phased

    Could you explain what a quart in a pint pot means please?

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Hehe - common - that's me too! :-)

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Hehe slightly old (fashioned) I'll hold my hand up to that :-)

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    yep - culture expects quick and simple these days.  Getting to appreciate things can take longer and more sustained experience and that depends upon the public appetite to engage for longer maybe...

  • in reply to Phased

    Ah now I understand. With that explanation I completely agree. I'd have liked to see the characters doing their normal thing and get to know them separately before they came together to help each other. If they'd made it over more episodes I think it'd have flowed better and I'd have found it less clunky.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    A gallon is 8 pints, a quart is a quarter of a gallon or 2 pints (just under a litre), a pint pot is a glass beer mug that holds a traditional British pint of beer in a pub. It's a slightly old fashioned, but common British saying, meaning that something is being squeezed into a container half the size it needs to be.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    Yes, I will do my best to  :-) It comes from units of liquid measurement. A quart(-er) of a gallon is 2 pints.  So putting 2 pints in a one pint container leads to problems.  I mean to suggest that the Patience series is trying to put too much content into too few episodes. Sorry I did not explain this well to start with.