Season 15 • Episode 7
LatestGlaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother Bobby.
Acting
Before-they-were-famous turns and established legends going raw.
Writing
Single-episode arcs that hit harder than most miniseries.
Production
BBC at its scrappy, ambitious, slightly underfunded peak.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Screen Two launched careers and revived others — it's essentially the British equivalent of Playhouse 90, but with more regional accents and worse lighting.
Episodes were shot on tight schedules with theater directors who often had zero TV experience, which explains the wildly experimental visual choices that sometimes aged like milk, sometimes like wine.
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