Back in the hot seat
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 it’s solely about those stressful interview scenes in rooms with one- way mirrors and cof fee in polystyrene cups as everything becomes increasingly tense and 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, Shubham Saraf 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, as they play more suspects who are put in the hot seat.
Kit Harington portrays an arrogant businessman accused of rape by a woman who works for him, while Sharon Horgan is the head of an online group that unmasks sexual predators.
And in the final episode, Kunal 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 you’ll want to binge in one go.