After a catastrophic head injury, Connie Nielsen’s Jo must piece her life back together – and figure out whether her husband can be trusted. You’re sure to be hooked
Move inland, people. That’s my advice, if you don’t want to be murdered (or nearly murdered). Coastal towns are now the most dangerous places on television. I blame Broadchurch mostly, though arguably the rot set in with Murder She Wrote’s Cabot Cove – the seaside town in Maine that had a murder rate roughly 18 times that of 70s New York.
In the last few months alone, we have had Charlie Brooks being gaslit by the sunny Melbourne shoreline in Lie With Me; corpses littering Ilfracombe’s sands in The Long Call; dead twins stuffed in caves in I Know What You Did Last Summer; and death in Hythe in Back to Life. And now we have the new psychological thriller Close to Me (Channel 4), delivering its psychological thrills in an unnamed but possibly Kentish town (given that there is a charity for Syrian refugees making up part of the plot) by the sea. No corpses yet, but I suspect it’s only a matter of time.
