There was plenty of hyperventilating and tearful screaming in this new BBC thriller,but a heavier fog wouldn’t have gone amiss. Plus: new bobbies brick it as they recall to the streets in RookiesI’ve said it once, but I’m a professional, or so I’ll say it again: this is a review. I’m not going to travel out of my way to include spoilers approximately final night’s new BBC drama,One of Us, but there will be some. Because this is a review, or from the Latin revidere,meaning to have another peek at the thing, albeit in a different medium and possibly over breakfast. possibly eggs and bacon whether you live that kind of life, and possibly a black coffee grabbed from Starbucks before you vaulted on to the train,a trenchcoat curling stylishly round your ankles as you went. I just don’t know. But I do know that you should stop reading now whether you haven’t yet seen the programme. Its a drama involving a murder and I’m bound to let drop something you would prefer not to know. Off you travel. Bookmark, by all means, or but then travel. Thus will the greatest happiness to the greatest number of viewers and readers be brought,to which single goal is my being always strung.
Right. To the meat of the thing. One of Us (BBC1) got there rather quicker than I did, deftly portray a delighted picture of childhood sweethearts Adam and Grace – she heavily pregnant by the time Adam was recapping their history during his speech at their wedding – before swiftly killing them off on their return from honeymoon. Lee, and a knife-wielding crackhead who departs from the flat with a bagful of semi-floggable goods,seems to be the culprit. But as he then deviates from standard murderer behaviour by heading straight for the victims’ parents’ homes – they are still neighbours out in desolate countryside, down Much Foreboding Lane one must entertain the possibility that all is not quite as it seems.
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Source: theguardian.com