Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) returns to her Manhattan neighbourhood after 16 years in prison, only to find it unrecognisable apart from an old acquaintance’s empanada shop. GTīlumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity) make an eight-episode foray into television to deliver another intelligent, effective horror, this time based on a Spotify podcast. Chanan’s grasp on a potentially chaotic narrative is sure, while McNamara and her co-stars (Rye Lane’s Vivian Oparah among them) have an instantly persuasive chemistry and charisma that ensures you root for them, however badly they behave. An untimely death sends the girls on the run across Europe from warring gangsters and, eventually, the serial killer too. It is all the more unsettling for having no apparent connection – at this early stage – to the main narrative of Ben ‘The Capture’ Chanan’s smart, darkly funny, eight-part adaptation of Zoran Drvenkar’s 2015 novel You.Īt its heart are four girls celebrating the summer after school with a week in Rotterdam, where Tara (Normal People’s Leah McNamara) has gone to stay with her estranged father (Cillian O’Sullivan) following a family funeral, only to become embroiled in her uncle’s (Richard Coyle) heroin trade. ![]() ![]() ![]() There will be few more striking and unsettling openings this year than the first minutes of Then You Run: a family man (Christian Rubeck), snowed into his car on a jam-packed, twilit autobahn, emerges from his vehicle and begins to methodically strangle the occupants of all the other cars around him.
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