I can't imagine that most of any of this is true but it's interesting viewing. What IS distracting is some of the locations which are pretty ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that's Canada doubling for both downtown Kenya AND Manchester. As a Brit, it's pretty insulting to see that they didn't even try to recreate the UK effectively. The only 'pub' they go in to in LONDON FFS is a heavily-themed Irish pub (oh please!)...I've been in more convincing pubs in Tokyo. The police cars look Canadian and the Mancunian landlady speaks with a US version of a Yorkshire accent (it's a subtle but important difference if you are going to make the effort....she may as well have been cockney). BUT they did have a Boddington's beer mat in a phone box (why...wtf?) to show that it was 'Manchester'. Whilst these issues might be minor, the integrity of any show which treats its audience with this amount of disrespect and stupidity should probably be questioned.
Review of The Looming Tower
