Broken, starring Sean Bean and directed and written by Jimmy McGovern, was one of the best shows out of the UK in quite a while. Time, also starring Bean with McGovern, is equally good. In a way, the two shows go together as Bean plays, in both, a introspective, gentle man struggling to do good in a world that is absolutely not good. In Time, the added complication is that Bean's character has a fatal flaw: alcoholism, making his efforts to survive almost impossible -- yet somehow, believably, he comes across as a decent man. In fact, both dramas deal with addiction and its terrible cost; in Time, that addiction leads to destruction and, possibly, redemption. All in all, Time is worth... yes... the time.
