Filmed in the director's familiar 'one take' style again with cameraman Matthew Lewis (who is also one of the operators). It's filmed with a gimbal so it's very steady and stable and could be passed from one operator to another. It is all continuous - no hidden edits. It makes for very gripping material. More than once I though of that powerful 2007 Andrew Garfield film Boy A.
One shot - where the camera seems to follow a boy out through a window, did use special effects, and the end of that episode has the camera being attached to a drone to make the high shot before coming back down to Graham - shades of Soy Cuba!
A thirteen year old is arrested for murder. His parents seem to know nothing about it.
The young cast are incredible: Owen Cooper, Fatima Bojang (one to watch - well they all are), Amélie Pease, Kaine Davis, Lewis Pemberton, mainly figuring in the school episode. I don't know where they find them all. Cooper really shows his stuff in the great one-to-one with psychotherapist Erin Doherty (The Crown).
Adult cast not bad also: Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Doherty, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco, Mark Stanley (solicitor), Jo Hartley, Hannah Walters.
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