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THE BEAST MUST DIE (Britbox)
★★★★
JUST so we’re clear what we’re dealing with here, Frances spells it out from the start.
“I am going to kill a man,” declares Cush Jumbo’s character.
“I don’t know his name. I don’t know where he lives. But I’m going to find him. And kill him…”
In this powerful new revenge thriller, Britbox’s first original scripted drama, Frances is a woman on a mission, hellbent on avenging the death of her little boy Martie, killed in a hit-and-run on the Isle of Wight.
Seething with rage over the police’s apparent ineptitude, and the fact they seem unwilling to follow the case further, Frances decides to take matters into her own hands.
Quitting her job as a teacher, she changes her surname, changes her look and embarks on a quest for the truth, prepared to do whatever it takes to unearth it – and ultimately to avenge her child’s death.
Mia Tomlinson is Lena, an aspiring model Frances befriends, who may just unwittingly enable her to carry out her plan.
And Jared Harris is the obnoxious George, head of Lena’s freakily posh
family, whose relationship with her less than healthy.
Does Frances think he holds the clue to what happened? As for the cops, it’s detective Nigel Strangeways who needs to get to the bottom of this.
New to the island, Billy Howle’s character has a brilliant mind but a deeply messed-up one, torturing him with flashbacks to a traumatic experience.
Can he somehow keep a grip as this tragic case draws him in?
Other stars include Geraldine James and Nathaniel Parker.
The first two episodes of The Beast Must Die are up on Britbox now, with the other three launching weekly on Thursdays. is