A trailer has been released for Channel 4’s upcoming Black Mirror Christmas special, written by Charlie Brooker. The one-off 90-minute episode is comprised of three stories, which are “bound together into a suitably unsettling whole”. Starring Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rafe Spall and Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones), ‘White Christmas’ will air on Tuesday 16 … >
Channel 4 has announced the stars of the upcoming feature-length Black Mirror Christmas special. Featuring “three interwoven stories of Yuletide techno-paranoia “, the 90-minute episode‘s cast includes Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rafe Spall (One Day) and Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones). Jon Hamm’s character will appear in all three stories, “binding them together into a suitably … >
BBC Two’s recent The Shadow Line is a serial sodden with blood: seven hours of claret-splattered, frequently flamboyant, occasionally preposterous and completely compulsive television.
A complete and unexpurgated knowledge of the truth is what DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and the viewers who have followed his exploits through every twist and bloodstained turn of this expansive, intricately-plotted thriller deserve; and happily, it’s precisely what they get.
Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in Hugo Blick’s seven-part conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line, coming to BBC Two in May, which delves into the heart of human morality.
After several weeks of soul-searching and self-doubt, DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finally establishes which side of the line he was on before being shot in the head – and who his real enemies are.
Over the course of its first four episodes, The Shadow Line has matured from an overwrought, rather confused melodrama plagued with florid verbosity into one of the BBC’s best thrillers in a very long time. In the fifth instalment, it gets even better.
Actor Rafe Spall (Desperate Romantics, Pete Versus Life) plays Jay Wratten, Wratten’s nephew and a key player in the drugs cartel, in Hugo Blick’s seven-part conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line.
BBC Two’s increasingly fascinating police drama reaches and passes its halfway stage in this episode, yet neither DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) nor Joseph Bede (Christopher Eccleston) appear much closer to accomplishing their respective goals than they were in the hours after the death of gangster Harvey Wratten.
Like the drugs at the heart of the late Harvey Wratton’s empire, The Shadow Line has become addictive in a slow, almost sneaky manner. After an unhurried, take-it-or-leave it start, it has insidiously built up to the point where now, three episodes in, it has become impossible to break free of its grip.