Joe Gilgun Woody Episodes

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads brave record-breaking heat, abandon the man cave, and review Shane Meadows’ This Is England (2006) — a bruising coming-of-age drama about grief, belonging, skinhead culture, racism, and the poisonous simplicity of nationalist hate.The episode starts with the recording circumstances becoming part of the texture: England are playing later, it is unbearably hot, birds may or may not be audible, and the dads are adopting the careful pacing of an England tournament side. From there, Sidey frames the film as the second Shane Meadows pick after the much-loved Dead Man’s Shoes, while Pete explains how Meadows often drew from lived experience, with Shaun Field loosely based on Meadows himself.The dads praise the film’s 1983 setting as almost painfully accurate: the corner shops, council-house interiors, clothes, hair, glasses, playgrounds, charity-shop trousers, and anti-Thatcher atmosphere all feel completely lived-in. Shaun is introduced as…