CUFFS

Cuffs-


Cuffs is a TV crime drama, it was showed in 2015 but was cancelled shortly after the first season. Cuffs was a fresh, authentic and visceral drama that takes the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line policing. The cast included a lot of highly successful actors such as Ashley Walters. By using people who are well known the TV show has automatically draw in a specific type of audience before the show has even aired. This TV show was very authentic and didn't want to lie to the audience, so showed a lot of the truth through the acting and scenes. By using this authentic effect the show suddenly becomes a lot more relatable for the audience which helps them to enjoy it more.

The opening title, to the show, was very effective. The show was set in Brighton so the opening title seemed to set the scene a lot for the audience as well as introducing the cast and actors. The opening title was around a minute long and had various different pictures flashing up to the screen, two at a time. All of the images were taken from Brighton, where the show was set, each image was the opposite of the second one. This showed two different sides of Brighton helping the audience understand what Brighton is like and what behaviour they could expect throughout the show.

There were many positive reviews written about Cuffs,which helped boost the shows reputation a lot. Although there were a lot of positive things said about the show it was cancelled after season one. The BBC said this was because they needed to create space for new shows to come through. They're are a lot of different diverse ethnic groups, in Brighton, and this is showed in this programme very well and how the different groups act around each other. Brighton, in 2017, is seen as a very open minded play to all sexualities and in one of the first scenes one of the characters says he is gay. This can show a lot about Brighton and how accepting it is of different sexualities.