Hollywood’s image of ‘Britain’

Good Grief!

I watched episode 12 of season 2 of ‘Lost’ yesterday. It was a very ‘Charlie-centric’ episode charting the fall of his band Drive-shaft and looking more deeply into Charlie’s relationship with his brother.

Unfortunately, the producers were a little worried their viewers might have forgotten Charlie is from the UK, and decided to make sure the viewers really didn't have any chance of forgetting his nationality. It was appalling. Union Jack robes worn at the video shoot, a blue-screened backdrop of Battersea Powerstation at the video location, more Union Jacks in his flat and perhaps worst was them all sitting round drinking tea out of bone china cups and saucers. I mean really. What made this even more bizarre was how the advert they were filming was for ‘Diapers’; Anyone worth their salt knows—of course—that they are in fact called ‘Nappies’ in the UK.

Add to that the terrible ‘Manc’ accent his mum had (not for the first time in Lost), and the location for ‘Brixton Tube’ that looked like the Bronx-set they have on the lot in L.A. (complete with left-hand drive cars), this had to be a low point in a declining series. More Sawyer please... He's the only thing worth watching it for anymore.