They’re cracking under pressure
KIT HARINGTON AND SHARON HORGAN ARE AMONG THE IMPRESSIVE CAST IN POLICE HOTSEAT FOR CRIMINAL’S SECOND SERIES
SUFFOCATING and intense, this gripping crime series, set almost entirely in a police interrogation room returns for a second series.
The four-parter will investigate four new cases, with four new suspects and one room that changes everything.
This is a police procedural drama, but focussing solely on those stressful interview scenes in rooms with one-way mirrors and coffee in polystyrene cups
makes proceedings increasingly claustrophobic.
Episode one focuses on Julia Bryce, played by Sophie Okonedo, who is the wife of a convicted killer who may have killed again.
“Don’t tell me he’s killed another one?” she says, tears in her eyes. “When will this nightmare ever end?”
But as Julia is quizzed by DC
Vanessa Warren, played by Line of Duty’s Rochenda Sandall, something concerning comes to light.
The police team, including cops played by Lee Ingleby and Katherine Kelly, risks a legal entanglement that could scupper the entire case.
A cracking cast of guest stars appear in the remaining three episodes too, playing more suspects in the hot seat.
Kit Harington plays an arrogant businessman accused of rape by a woman who works for him.
Sharon Horgan is the head of an online group that unmasks sexual predators.
And in the final episode, Junal Nayyar stars, as the police call in a disgraced former colleague to help with the case of a convicted killer.
Keep the evening free, this is a series that you’ll want to binge in one go.