Protagonist Emma Banville is a human rights lawyer who takes on the sort of cases most lawyers wouldn't touch with a barge pole. She already has the wife of a man the authorities believe is working with terrorists in Syria living in her house and now she has also taken on the case of Kevin Russell; a man who was convicted of killed a school girl fourteen years previously. Everybody seems to think he is guilty, even his son doesn't want anything to do with him but as Emma starts asking questions and looking at the evidence she starts to think that there is a connection between the girl's death and a nearby US air base and a secret meeting that took place on the eve on the invasion of Iraq. As she tries to investigate this link the powers that be on both sides of the Atlantic try to make sure she doesn't find out what really happened
what that is, is far from obvious.
This ITV drama was rather impressive; I liked how an apparent miscarriage of justice in the case of the murder of a school girl could expand into a political drama with major players on both sides of the Atlantic. There are some good twists along the way, as well as a couple that are a little far-fetched but not enough to spoil my enjoyment. Helen McCrory does a great job as Banville and is able supported by a fine cast that includes Jamie Bamber as an up and coming Labour MP, Robin Weigert as the sinister Heather Myles and Wunmi Mosaku as the police officer originally in charge of the case. The final resolution does require some suspension of disbelief would the powers that be really frame somebody for murder when they could have been just left another unsolved hit-and-run tragedy. Still that isn't really a problem as without that choice we'd have no story. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to anybody after a drama with political undertones.
This ITV drama was rather impressive; I liked how an apparent miscarriage of justice in the case of the murder of a school girl could expand into a political drama with major players on both sides of the Atlantic. There are some good twists along the way, as well as a couple that are a little far-fetched but not enough to spoil my enjoyment. Helen McCrory does a great job as Banville and is able supported by a fine cast that includes Jamie Bamber as an up and coming Labour MP, Robin Weigert as the sinister Heather Myles and Wunmi Mosaku as the police officer originally in charge of the case. The final resolution does require some suspension of disbelief would the powers that be really frame somebody for murder when they could have been just left another unsolved hit-and-run tragedy. Still that isn't really a problem as without that choice we'd have no story. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to anybody after a drama with political undertones.