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One of Potter's last TV dramas, it was panned by the popular press for its sex scenes. This however was a front for a more basic tabloid journalistic problem - no-one understood it. Not surprising as this multilevel play is three stories not one, each containing a variation of the most desired woman - Blackeyes. Underlying each of these scenarios are the questions of men and their sexual desire and idolatry of women, each as fruitless fantasy.

The acting is superb and the inter change between the various levels of the story mesmeric, however it is over long. Most of the third part could have been cut without loss. This is a small price to see one of the greatest TV dramas ever constructed. With the BBC having lost its nerve to produce drama of this depth I doubt if we will ever see its like again.

A long and drawn out study about how wealthy men use and coerce women.

There was a night-club owner in Prague who used to say that the reason why there was so many sex shows was because that few people understood Czech "so we better give them something they do understand."

In a lot of Dennis Potters work sex is -- indeed -- they only thing they understand.

This is a very long and drawn out piece with a good number of points to be made -- if you want money you have to either to work for it or put up with those that have it.

Gina Bellman (Blackeyes) doesn't give herself up easily -- but she does give herself up with a series of rationalisations about how she is not prostituting herself. Even though she clearly is.

Sadly this is very very long and besides the point above I gained little by watching it. Dennis Potter has made some original pieces of work, but this is one of the less interesting ones.

I believe the late, great Dennis Potter was already fighting his nemesis cancer when he wrote 'Blackeyes'. And I think in this regard both it and his subsequent works should be seen in the light of a man confronting his own mortality and everything implied.

Beautiful Gina Bellman plays the titular 'Blackeyes', a woman who is moved - rather like Potter himself - to constantly evaluate her life, its motive, and its evolution. Potter had a reputation for what might be called 'sexual candour', and this work, if anything, cemented it. The viewer must decide for him/herself as to whether or not he was exploitative in his use of sexuality as a dramatic vehicle. The truth is, if we are honest, sex is everywhere, we really do think about it constantly; it is the prime mover to all of our actions and goals. Most drama does not even begin to reflect our covert obsession. What we glimpse, in evidence, is just the tip of a lustberg.

Potter was a man, like most men, who see women as victims of sexual exploitation, when - regarded objectively, that is to say from a Darwinian standpoint - it is men who are the truly exploited sex. As indeed are most males of most species.

His lengthy study may now seem a little tame and long-winded by today's standards, but back in the 1980's it was subtle, original and cutting-edge. Comparable work in the third millennium is all but non-existent.

This drama is especially poignant to me as I was tasked with the urgent delivery of the last episode. The quickest way being by motorcycle, that's what I used. Horror of horrors - it fell off the back and tumbled down into a water-filled ditch. I was grief-stricken. But fortunately they tape 'em up good and secure at the studio. I suspect old Dennis would have been in stitches if the truth had come out the hard way. Happily, it never did. My wet boots went unremarked.