An unfaithful husband leads to bigger problems for soap star Charlie Brooks in Channel 5’s improbably silly drama. Forget Australia – she’s better off on Albert Square
A body bag, an evidence bag, a shiny bracelet, a watery grave, a large, posh house where – surely! – everyone should have been so happy and a woman in a police interview room being asked how long she had known the deceased. An older woman comes out of the big, posh house with a young child and says: “She keeps asking for Mummy! What can I possibly say?”
Ah, my dear. Tell her, once the opening credits have rolled and the obligatory “Five weeks earlier” caption has appeared, that she is in a mid-to-low-ranking TV drama and that everything will fall into place over the next four hour-long parts, broadcast on consecutive nights, so she won’t have to wait too long and risk her interest fading. Oh, and tell her to enjoy being in Australia – the budget doesn’t usually stretch to that.
