HYLAND On Last Night’s TV

F★ ★ ★ ollowing the real- life political drama we enjoyed on TV for much of last week, the finale of this fictionalised version last night was a bit of an anti- climax.

I won’t spoil it for you. I don’t really need to. The way it finished was utterly predictable. It also felt like the ending should have been the beginning of the story.

Still, if Hugh Laurie was up for making a second series of Roadkill I’d definitely watch it. His 5- star performance in this 3- star drama will go down as one of my 2020 TV highlights.

You couldn’t take your eyes of ambitious Tory Minister Peter Laurence, a corrupt, serial love cheat with at least one illegitimate child ( no, I don’t know where they get their ideas from either).

Laurie’s scenes with Helen Mccrory as incumbent PM,

Dawn Ellison, ( yes 90s pop fans, she really was called PM Dawn) gave us heavyweight TV sparring at its best.

It was just a shame the cast was let down by David Hare’s flabby script, which relied a little too heavily on political lectures and soapy domestic melodrama.

There was also an alarming lack of twists and turns. The only heart- stopping moment came when a UK journalist investigating Laurence was flattened by a truck in the US.

If you want edge of the seat stuff, I suggest you turn to another British Hugh: Grant. His new Sky Atlantic drama with Nicole Kidman, The Undoing, is well on its way to being the best thing I’ve seen all year.