Anthony review, Culture Whisper
In recent months, television’s emphasis on shining and re-shining lights on victims of racism has necessarily surged – prioritising stories of racial injustice and violence that should never be forgotten. BBC One tackled a casualty of the Windrush scandal in the frighteningly Kafkaesque Sitting In Limbo, and ITV re-broadcast Paul Greengrass’ excellently raw The Murder of Stephen Lawrence from 1999.
But while these are furiously fascinating procedural dramas, neither of them reaches the emotional ambition of Anthony. Penned by screenwriter Jimmy McGovern (Care), this TV movie is a kind of metafictional examination of 18-year-old Anthony Walker, who was murdered in 2005 by racists in Merseyside.
