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Grafters - The Complete Second Season

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This is a wonderful series about the love and hate that can flow between siblings. Joe and Trevor Purvis are from Newcastle, Joe's an experienced builder, Trevor his out-of-work younger brother who's done a bit of home improvement, but not much more. Joe brings Trevor to London with him to restore a large Victorian house near the river for a couple, Laura and Paul.

The brothers' relationship is very complex from the start and is only made more complex by many of the situations that they encounter during the job, including the breakup of Trevor's marriage and falling in lust with the wrong women. Trevor must work constantly to try and prove to Joe that he's not "crap" at building and Joe has to learn to deal better with his responsibility for his choices and actions, both in his own broken marriage and in his relationship to his family.

There is much comedy and drama along the way, and the performances are consistently good. Stephen Tompkinson's Trevor seems pathetic at times, but there is a core of strength that emerges when it's needed. Robson Green's Joe is a very tightly wound individual, full of ambitions and a drive to succeed, a volatile temper, though he will eventually be brought round to his senses by reason. Also Emily Joyce, known also for her excellent comedic work in My Hero, among other things, shows her dramatic chops, as well as her delightfully mischievous side as Laura, the beautiful and slightly gullible wife who has bought the house with her husband Paul(Neil Stuke), a slightly slimy and stuck-up shipping engineer.

I highly recommend this series, and hope that they will bring out series 2 on DVD Region 1 soon!

So many releases today leave us with unfinished series. This is a very heartwarming drama/comedy with excellent actors & scripts. I am surprised and elated that the final series is being released so quickly after the first...definitely a re-watchable series that every Britcom lover should add to their dvd library.

Grafters" (series 1&2) was one of the best and funniest series on British Television. Goodness knows how they managed to get any work done because of all the distractions! Could watch it again and again. Highly recommended.

Koch Vision and BBC presents "GRAFTERS: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON" (2006) (400 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) ---The Complete Second Season. This eight-episode series from 1999 puts the two geordie brothers in Brighton, where it's always sunny, but the water's getting too hot --- This British television show follows the exploits of two brothers who move from the North-East of England to London --- The brothers Robson Green and Stephen Tompkinson take a job renovating houses after arriving in the city, but their fractious relationship often threatens to tear them apart --- Grafters: The Complete Second Season is a real treat for fans of British TV who are looking for a fresh, fun, surprisingly emotional comedy, romance and drama --- The cast is outstanding, the writing is sharp and the direction is excellent.

Under the production staff of:
Steven Whittaker - Director
David Thacker - Director
Dominic Brigstocke - Director
Paul Harrison - Director
Yvonne Francas - Producer
Richard Stoneman - Screenwriter
Annie Wood - Screenwriter
Andrew Rattenbury - Screenwriter
Colin Bytheway - Screenwriter
Shaun Prendergast - Screenwriter

Story line and plot, Grafters has a lot of routine soapy moments, but also has some scenes that really click --- Take note as the scene in which a brawling Nick and Joe tumble out of Nick's office into the street to find Trevor and Clare kissing or the wine-and-cheese flat showing that goes perfectly wrong --- Wouldn't hire these guys to do a project for me --- They always find putting out romantic fires and doing battle with upper-class twits --- Can't see how they actually found the time to get any work done --- The construction trade does play a part in the story, since the brothers Purvis face obstacles like asbestos and bad wiring along with the obstacles created by the sleazy Nick Costello and their own romantic distractions.

the cast includes
Robson Green - Joe Purvis
Stephen Tompkinson - Trevor Purvis
Darren Morfitt - Simon Purvis
Lesley Vickerage - Viv Casey
Katherine Wogan - Clare Costello
David Westhead - Nick Costello
Stephen Boxer - Geoff Marriott
Marian McLoughlin - Pippa Marriott
Berwick Kaler - Uncle Alan
Heather Bleasdale - Lizzie
Stacy Heart - Becky

BIOS;
1. Robson Green
Date of Birth: 18 December 1964 - Hexham, Northumberland, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

2. Stephen Tompkinson
Date of Birth: 15 October 1965 - Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

3. Darren Morfitt
Date of Birth: 12 September 1973 - Hartlepool, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

4. Lesley Vickerage
Date of Birth: 1961 - London, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

Great job by Koch Vision --- looking forward to more high quality titles from the BBC Collection film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch releases --- where they are experts in releasing long forgotten films and treasures to the collector.

Total Time: 400 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOCV-6462 ~ (12/04/2007)

Every reason to watch this is well expressed by others here, so I'll just point out that although the first season has its own satisfying conclusion, you'll want to know what becomes of these characters longer term. Go straight to the second season - it doesn't leave you hanging and it is the perfect compliment to the first. If anything it raises the stakes. Enough said - don't miss.

I had watched part of this in England and thoroughly enjoyed it. The actors and actresses in this are great, especially Robson Green. Brilliant.

This is a hilarious program from the BBC from Britain. I love to watch it.

This is a great movie, the two who play brothers are really great together, well work watching

Robson Green always delivers a fine performance, and this charming but dated series is full of laughter as well as poignant moments. See Robson Green before he made 'Wire in the Blood' or 'Touched by Evil.'

You'll enjoy the entire cast in this wonderfully weaved story of a chaotic dysfunctional family with parallel views of upper crust dysfunctional characters.

My wife who is from Scotland and I the "yank", enjoyed this series. We enjoy British Television series, Ballykissagel, Monarch of the Glen, Hamish Macbeth and now the Grafters. I would recommend this for viewing to anyone in good British Televison comedy, to bad there is only two seasons?