Back To Life is back again
What’s on, what’s best and where to see it
Critically acclaimed series Back To Life, created by and starring Daisy Haggard and co-written by Haggard and Perrier Award-winner Laura Solon, returns to BBC Three for a second series. In episode one, three weeks after we last saw her, and six weeks after leaving prison, Miri Matteson is optimistic about her future. Her probation officer, Janice, has got her a trial shift at the supermarket; she and her neighbour Billy have been spending more time together, and she’s found her crimper.
However, Miri’s not talking to her mother Caroline after the revelation that Caroline was having an affair with Miri’s ex-boyfriend Dom, and Miri will need a lot of shifts at the supermarket before she can afford to move out. She’s also avoiding her best friend Mandy, after learning that Mandy’s secret affair with Lara’s father, John Boback, led to Lara’s death all those years ago. Things are about to get a whole lot worse with the arrival in Hythe of Lara’s mother, Norah. Still grieving her daughter, it’s clear her presence will ensure Miri cannot escape her past.
In epsiode two, after the awkward end to their not-datedate, Miri offers to help Billy sort through Anna’s things. Although picking through the personal belongings of her crush’s dead wife seems like the last thing on Miri’s to-do list. Things get worse for Miri when Janice tells her that she needs a bank account before she can start working at the supermarket. Oscar’s having technical difficulties in his social media campaign for Make Hythe Clean, but he is nevertheless becoming obsessed with his new distraction.
Back To Life BBC Three, Boxset from Tuesday