This six-part Apple TV adaptation of Sarah Perry’s Victorian gothic romance is beautifully produced. The sinuous, winding waterways of the Blackwater marshes, seen from the air in the very classy, opening sequence, suggest the coils of the eponymous serpent: a monster to terrify the superstitious or an evolutionary missing-link to excite the Darwinian scientific mind.
The atmosphere of the Essex landscape suffuses the narrative, which starts out like a mystery but builds steadily into a character-led drama of powerful emotional complexity. The stellar cast includes Claire Danes as the amateur naturalist recovering from an abusive marriage and Tom Hiddleston as a rationalist vicar, but it’s Frank Dillane as the hubristic genius surgeon and Clémence Poésy as the vicar’s delicate wife who linger most in the memory.
Inside No 9 — ninth and final series starts filming
Inside No 9 — ninth and final series starts filming
The BBC reports filming is underway on the ninth and final series of Inside No 9. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s series will again consist of 6×60 episodes.
Cast for this final series include: Dorothy Atkinson, Mark Bonnar, Charlie Cooper, Philippa Dunne, Siobhan Finneran, Joel Fry, Katherine Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Eddie Marsan, Vinette Robinson, Adrian Scarborough, Hayley Squires and…