Do you think when Stephen Graham gets a call from Jack Thorne he just says "Yes" immediately? You know you're going to get something visceral and award-worthy. (I am still really pissed off that Mr Graham was cheated out of the BAFTA for The Virtues.) Jodie Comer is also stunning as a care home worker facing Covid-19 - the centrepiece is the long episode when she's on her own at night and enlists the early dementia sufferer Graham to help move a dying patient.
Virtually the entire cast of Brookside joins in the fun*. Ian Hart, Lesley Sharp, Sue Johnston, Cathy Tyson, Angela Griffin, Charles De'Ath, Andrew Schofield (G.B.H.), David Hayman.
The very shallow focus treatment is distracting. Sound and music are used together beautifully (Niv Adiri and Jim Williams).
* One, actually. Ed.
I was delighted to learn later that it was Graham who referred the budding Comer to his agent and thus a new career was born (perhaps after they would have met on Good Cop.)
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