Article: TV Reviews

"This is the day look," said a woman called Garbo, peering out from enough make-up to stop a dum-dum bullet, "night-time is a bit heavier." Something similar could be said of Soho - jauntily bohemian by day, but a lot heavier by night, when alcohol (and worse) can make the village turn vicious. There isn't much of that yet in evidence in Soho Stories (BBC2), Christopher Terrill's observational soap, a series which has been unconventionally filmed (he worked alone with a high-quality video camera) and also been unconventionally scheduled - in late-night bursts of three programmes in succession.

Instead, last night's opener was intent on enchantment, seducing you with the glamour of urbanity ...

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