![]() Pablo Escobar… all that coke and all that violence,” he announces). Though he insists he likes house music, his approach is Partridge-y that of a man who thinks professional drug dealers must be like someone from Narcos(“Big hit on Netflix. Initially, I found this incredibly jarring, not because Warburton doesn’t ask the right questions – he does – but because he’s such an outsider. Warburton, who is involved throughout, has made a couple of very good investigative podcasts for 5 Live – End of Days Beyond Reasonable Doubt? – and he brings a similar newshound approach to this series. But the heart of the show is the documentary. These short dramas are fine: nicely acted, authentic, believable. In the latter, we hear from the raver, the dealer, the DJ, the entrepreneur and the policeman, each played by an excellent and well-cast actor. Second, five monologues written by Danny Brocklehurst. First, a six-part documentary (plus a bonus episode), hosted by 5 Live’s Chris Warburton. The producers have decided to tell that tale in two ways. (The podcast starts with Frankie Knuckles’s Your Love and ends with Sterling Void’s It’s Alright, both released in 1987.) The few short months between a delirious time where it genuinely seemed as though the combination of ecstasy and acid house could change the world… to the point where the hard men moved in and everything went dark. Obviously, clubbing carried on after that time, but what the shows are concerned with is that first, intense arc. The series, which came out as a binge-able 12-parter last week, concentrates on the rise and fall of early rave: from the time when acid house parties started kicking off to when the gangsters and riot police moved in.
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