Joan (ITV1) | ITVXIndustry BBC One | iPlayerNobody Wants This (Netflix)Heartstopper (Netflix)You can usually tell if a 1980s drama has got the ambience right: it remembers to stir in just enough of the 1970s, which lingered throughout the decade like a gas leak.Joan, the new ITV1 drama, based on the 2002 memoir of notorious 80s jewel thief Joan Hannington, does just that. So, yes, there’s Wham!, ABC and lopsided Human League hair. Joan (Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones) exudes brittle peroxide glamour in the opening scene at a vanity table (despite a lattice of scarring on her back). But there’s also a whiff of the previous decade: in the streets, the pubs, the men. Joan’s jeweller boss is a mouth-breather with wandering hands and 70s-newsreader hair. It’s in his shop Joan impulsively swallows diamonds. How she retrieves them involves a sieve, a glass bowl, and … well, just be thankful the camera pans away.Created by Anna Symon, co-written with Helen Black (who co-wrote…
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