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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsThe Trials of Oscar Pistorius
BBC Two
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{{{((R
eeva Steenkamp’s mother
was furious at the BBC
trailer for The Trials of
Oscar Pistorius, which
glorified his sporting career,
but failed to mention her murdered
daughter by name. If I were her I
would be angry about what we saw.
Because much of this first part of the
series felt like an extended apology for
Pistorius courtesy of his friends, family
and siblings, saying what a great guy
he was and how shooting his girlfriend
had left him really quite upset.We heard that Pistorius “kept
crying out her name in utter disbelief”,
that he was “broken” and “physically
shaking”, that “it was horrible to see
someone that distraught”. Hmm.
More distraught than his victim’s
parents who lost their beautiful
daughter in the prime of her life? Little
mention of how terrified Steenkamp
must have felt cowering in Pistorius’s
bathroom with bullets coming through
the door. It was as if repeating how
distressed he was proved it was an
accident and we should feel sorry for
him. Pistorius was a great, inspiring
athlete, but no, I didn’t.
Storyville is a quality brand and
there will doubtless be more context
later in the four-part series, but for
much of this first 90 minutes the
focus was on the fall of the great
Paralympian rather than the killing
of an innocent woman. It got better
when it addressed the domestic
violence problem in South Africa, with
campaigners saying it was a common
occurrence for women, especially in a
country suffering from “PTSD”.
Yet more striking was the immense
sympathy poured on Pistorius from
the talking heads. His uncle, who
gave him somewhere to stay when
he was granted bail, said Pistorius
would never get the image of
Steenkamp covered in blood out of
his mind. He didn’t want “two lives”
to be ruined in all this. Yes, yes —that’s the main thing. This felt like
a case of “Oscar Pistorius killed his
girlfriend. Poor Oscar.”
I’m glad His Dark Materials
is back, if only for Ruth Wilson’s
pouty psycho-in-a-pencil-skirt Mrs
Coulter. However, this was a fairly flat
opener, even with Mrs Coulter’s light
torture of a witch with a pair of
tweezers (she never uses them on
her eyebrows, obviously).
I’m less interested in the child
characters (what can I say? I’m evil
like Mrs C). Amir Wilson is good as
Will Parry, who comes from Earth’s
Oxford, and Dafne Keen has barely
put a foot wrong as Lyra, who comes
from the “alternative” Oxford, but
I’m less engaged when minors carry
the bulk of the episode. It doesn’t
help that Lyra’s daemon, Pan,
sounds like the schoolboy from the
Milkybar advert.
It is beautifully, cleverly shot even
though not much happened in the
new world, which looked like a sunny
Tuscan village post-apocalypse, but
was in fact shot in Cardiff. Lin-Manuel
Miranda’s appearance was so fleeting
it hardly seemed worth him putting
his long coat on. But there is the
promise of more Andrew Scott as
Will’s father, John, and more of Mrs
Coulter scowling at her monkey
daemon. He represents her soul, so we
can conclude that she doesn’t much
Oscar Pistorius during his trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp like herself. Give it time to blossom.Sympathy for Oscar, but what about his victim?
CHARLIE SHOEMAKER/GETTY IMAGESCarol
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