(There is one exception to this because it was filmed properly bilingually, but it's still pretty bleak.)
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Bilingual nodding?
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
More that it was filmed in a natural mixture of mostly Welsh with some English (reflecting how Welsh speakers in a mostly Anglophone area navigate languages), rather than having English and Welsh scenes filmed seperately and being spliced into English, Welsh, and bilingual versions.
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
If you're doing the latter, the scenes all have to be roughly the same length no matter if the amount of dialogue in one language ends up being much less than the other!
aug 30, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Hinterland/Y Gwll? I loved that even if I have zero Welsh
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 pm • 8 0 • view
Hinterland/Y Gwyll (which I also love) is the one where the showmakers first noticed this effect -- the bilingual one which has full-on code switching in a way most S4C crime drama doesn't is 'Bang', set in Port Talbot.
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 15 0 • view
(The second season has a scene that's probably one of the most shocking -- despite all the violence happening offscreen -- ever shown on Welsh tv, as a heads up if you go looking for it.)
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 7 0 • view