THIS WEEK’S CHOICE

From the makers of Bodyguard and Line of Duty, Save Me Too is the second season of the award-winning Save Me – a Sky original created, written by and starring Lennie James in the titular role of Nelly Rowe: the boozer, charmer, chancer and fighter whose life was turned upside down after being accused of the abduction of the daughter he barely knew.

Now, 17 months later, Jody is still missing but Nelly’s quest to find his daughter lives on. The high-profile trial of Gideon (Adrian Edmondson) – accused of the sexual exploitation of Grace (Olive Gray) – the young woman Nelly found in a caravan park – brings newfound hope. Will details emerge that provide a fresh lead to Jody?

While Claire (Suranne Jones) is confronted with the grim possibilities of her daughter’s fate, Gideon’s wife Jennifer (Lesley Manville) faces the truth of the monster she’s been married to. As their lives – and the trial – unravels, Nelly takes Grace further under his wing. But when a shocking crime throws suspicion on them all, Nelly’s attempt to protect Grace triggers consequences that neither of them could have imagined.

“One of the questions I had to answer quite a lot at the end of the first series, to varying degrees, was how people reacted to the fact that Nelly didn’t find Jody. For me, that was never something that was going to happen. It was never something when I first pitched the story. I made it very clear that he didn’t find her after the first six episodes, partly because I felt that was what television expects, but also it’s irresponsible. I think it’s irresponsible because the journey is much more complicated than that. That’s why, in these second six episodes, we kind of tell the same experience from two very different perspectives in the sense of what may or may not have happened to Jody, and what has happened to Grace. In a way they, are two sides of the same coin.”