TV review: BBC indulges in a bout of 1980s nostalgia

Eighties revivals have been proliferating in one form or another since the late 1990s, which, of course, means that they have now been going on for longer than the actual decade did.

Eighties revivals have been proliferating in one form or another since the late 1990s, which, of course, means that they have now been going on for longer than the actual decade did.

The BBC is currently waist-deep in one of its own. Tonight, for example, it will be serving up the first instalment of Money, a televisual adaptation of Martin Amis’s studiedly vulgar and messy attempt to capture the horrors of the MeDecade. ...