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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 308099" data-attributes="member: 23">Going Straight came to a satisfying end last night with Lennie and Ingrid marrying in the final episode. For me, the best part of the episode - and indeed the entire series - came somewhere in the second half of the episode in the form of a lengthy one-to-one scene between Fletch and Lennie. It evoked Porridge at its best. Then as here, the conversation - with Fletch reclining on his bed and Lennie standing nearby - covered a lot of ground and was played more or less completely straight.What&#039;s more, it was nuanced and layered and reinforced what a brilliantly character driven piece this is. It started out as an angry exchange between the two over a disagreement, but ended with Fletch telling Lennie he&#039;s glad Lennie is marrying his daughter and Godber saying how proud he is to see Fletch making an earnest attempt to go straight. Even this comes with a layer of poignancy and tragedy, because Fletch has just taken up the offer to be part of a big heist on a&nbsp; bank. He can&#039;t tell Lennie, but he also struggles to look him in the eye. This is taken to another level when on the day of the job - and the wedding - he dives into a pet shop as part of a hastily made up alibi when he&#039;s seen by someone he knows and looks round at all the caged animals, sympathising with them having spent many years of his own life behind bars. It&#039;s really nicely shot. Fletch turning down the job and truly going straight feels like something that&#039;s been hard won. It only clicked with me after watching each episode that this isn&#039;t just a series about a man trying to turn down weekly temptation and having a few narrow escapes along the way (though it is both), but a series about a man genuinely trying to be free of his past and try to walk a different path even though that uncharted territory holds fear for him. At just six episodes, Going Straight still managed to make its mark, and the journey of Fletch and Godber over the course of two different titles and more than five years has been one well worth taking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 308099, member: 23"] [I]Going Straight[/I] came to a satisfying end last night with Lennie and Ingrid marrying in the final episode. For me, the best part of the episode - and indeed the entire series - came somewhere in the second half of the episode in the form of a lengthy one-to-one scene between Fletch and Lennie. It evoked [I]Porridge[/I] at its best. Then as here, the conversation - with Fletch reclining on his bed and Lennie standing nearby - covered a lot of ground and was played more or less completely straight. What's more, it was nuanced and layered and reinforced what a brilliantly character driven piece this is. It started out as an angry exchange between the two over a disagreement, but ended with Fletch telling Lennie he's glad Lennie is marrying his daughter and Godber saying how proud he is to see Fletch making an earnest attempt to go straight. Even this comes with a layer of poignancy and tragedy, because Fletch has just taken up the offer to be part of a big heist on a bank. He can't tell Lennie, but he also struggles to look him in the eye. This is taken to another level when on the day of the job - and the wedding - he dives into a pet shop as part of a hastily made up alibi when he's seen by someone he knows and looks round at all the caged animals, sympathising with them having spent many years of his own life behind bars. It's really nicely shot. Fletch turning down the job and truly going straight feels like something that's been hard won. It only clicked with me after watching each episode that this isn't just a series about a man trying to turn down weekly temptation and having a few narrow escapes along the way (though it is both), but a series about a man genuinely trying to be free of his past and try to walk a different path even though that uncharted territory holds fear for him. At just six episodes,[I] Going Straight[/I] still managed to make its mark, and the journey of Fletch and Godber over the course of two different titles and more than five years has been one well worth taking. [/QUOTE]

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