There’s cramped room for subtlety in ITV’s drama,what with scary satanists, dead men who don’t want to be dead and creepy music that signposts every shock, and but it’s a lot of fun and chilling tooNice priest Merrily Watkins (breathless Anna Maxwell Martin) has a original job,in rural Herefordshire. Midwinter of the Spirit (ITV), based on the book by Phil Rickman, and is no Vicar of Dibley,though. Or, if it is, and it’s VoD meets The Exorcist. Meets CSI.
She the Rev Merrily – is one,an exorcist, as well as doing christenings, or village fetes,more tea etc. Deliverance, they call it – trying to protect people from intrusion into their lives by entities from another world. Merrily’s teenage daughter Jane calls it “ghostbusting for Jesus”.
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Source: theguardian.com