Brexit: The Uncivil War - What the Must Watch reviewers think

Monday 7 January 2019, 15:17

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Must Watch reviewers Scott Bryan, TV Editor at Buzzfeed, and Hayley Campbell, journalist and critic, share their thoughts on Brexit: The Uncivil War.

Brexit: The Uncivil War is on Channel 4 at 21:00 on Monday 7 January.

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Hayley says: "I don't think it's too soon to make drama out of the mess"

"It doesn't lean either way. All it does is dramatise what happened - what was going on.

"If you've been paying attention to Cambridge Analytica news, to the Jo Cox attack, it's a video of these events that we've all be seeing over the years.

"I don't think it's too soon to make drama out of the mess - it is so messy, you won't be able to encompass it in a single film later on.

"This TV show doesn't go beyond the vote - the vote happens, this ends. It's just telling us how the vote came about.

"It felt like a sketch show - the casting was awful, though Benedict Cumberbatch was so great - 'Boris Johnson' was terrible."

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Scott says: "The weakness of this drama is Brexit itself"

"You learn a lot about how the operation worked - for example, with the Leave campaign, they kept politicians quite far away from them because they knew of the damage politicians might do - so that's why Nigel Farage launched his own campaign

"The insider elements going along through the campaign are what's really beneficial. You get insight on stuff you've not heard that much on Brexit.

"The weakness of this drama is Brexit itself - it's so all-encompassing, it's so 'everywhere,' and I think people are using TV as escapism so I don't know if they'd want to watch this."