What to watch
Requiem BBC ONE, 9.00PM
After last week’s hiatus because of the Six Nations rugby, it’s back to small-town Wales for another dose of supernatural countryhouse shenanigans.
When we last saw fragile but determined musician Matilda (Lydia Wilson), she’d suffered the double whammy of finding her would-be mother Rose (Claire Rushbrook) unconscious in the bath and learning that mute Aunt Meredith (Jane Thorne) had died on the verge of offering up her secrets. How did Matilda react? By mysteriously blacking out and bashing her beloved cello against a cupboard.
In the fourth episode then, she looks for connections between her mental health and Carys’s disappearance. And some clues emerge: Matilda meets eccentric local Laura (Anastasia Hille), who claims to hear voices informing her of Carys’s fate, and back at the mansion, she comes across some old tomes detailing rituals to unlock the past. Even with its heavily scored bumps and shudders, Requiem can’t quite sustain its early Hammer Horror appeal. The strong performances and some genuinely chilling moments keep things compelling however, not least in the spine-tingling climax of this episode. Toby Dantzic