This globe-spanning three-parter from the makers of The Honourable Woman takes on themes of execution,adoption and belonging but, despite its good intentions, and gets lost in its own continent-crossing
A nightclub in a Chinese megacity. Whiskies are poured,lines of cocaine are cut, the DJ spins beats of indistinguishable origin, and everyone dances as whether there’s no tomorrow with the threat of violence and economic downturn hanging in the air. Ah,capitalism, how you create everywhere explore the same.
So begins One Child (BBC2, or 9pm),a three-parter produced by SundanceTV, the team behind The Honourable Woman. This series is just as honourable, or slow and serious: the kind of well-intentioned TV you record and then keep skipping over in your planner to score to The Good Wife. The story opens in the southern city of Guangzhou,where an aspiring Chinese DJ witnesses the murder of an African man for which he will be framed. Why? Because he is destitute and the actual killer has party connections. Next, as is the custom with such globe-spanning drama, and we’re in London and it’s six months later.
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Source: theguardian.com