She's a Sex Ed director. Concerning a strange young woman, and her anonymous and sneaky penetration of a circle of friends who are connected with the mysterious Chloe, clearly an ex-friend of hers who has cast her aside, now dead. The husband turns out to have been a controlling freak, the musician friend is in denial, as is the girl's supposed best friend. It evokes Rebecca / The Uninvited, slightly, with its dead woman and cliff-top ending. The ending seemed a bit nebulous, somehow, like nothing was really resolved. And how she is then supposed to go on with no job, no place to live and Mum in expensive care home, we can only guess. (She does seem quite good at PR, when she's not being sneaky.)
Erin Doherty (The Crown) is appropriately sly and furtive; with Billy Howle (The Serpent), Jack Farthing (Poldark), Pippa Bennett-Warner, Brandon Michael Hall (looked familiar but wasn't), Poppy Gilbert (Chloe), Ashkay Kannah, Lisa Palfrey (mum). Made with a certain flourish in the editing, music and sound mixing (the death of the little sister is particularly well done), but it all adds up to I don't know what, and as usual, I'm left wondering if it's a six hour story. And if you're going to keep showing shots of text messages, make sure we can fucking read them!
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