At last a drama about English Catholics that shows them as three dimensional people and not the caricatures that are usually trotted out on British television; not to mention the annual anti Catholic hate-fest that is bonfire night. Reading some of the negative reviews it is fairly evident that good acting, tense drama and a well written script are helpless in the face of the well entrenched and persistent anti Catholicism of some in 21st century Britain. For me at least, I am well satisfied by a drama that depicts accurately men and women of a lost English Catholic culture who were brave enough to fight and die for their rights against tyranny. How fitting it is that Guy Fawkes face now represents opposition to tyranny worldwide.
Review of Gunpowder
