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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Chloe review – Erin Doherty is outstanding in this social media thriller

Erin Doherty as Becky in Chloe.
Faking it to make it … Erin Doherty as Becky in Chloe. Photograph: Luke Varley/BBC/Mam Tor Productions

I have dedicated my entire existence to eliminating uncertainty, stress and anxiety in all their possible forms. So there is nothing more compulsively watchable to me than someone not only rushing to embrace those things at every turn but actively creating them – pumping their life so full of exhilarations and potential disasters that it threatens to explode at the lightest touch.

If you are of the same persuasion, settle back – or rather, sit on the edge of your seat and prepare to fall off well before the closing credits – and enjoy the masterful portrait of such a thrill-seeker in the BBC’s rather wonderful Chloe (BBC One). It is a fierce, fresh sort-of-murder-mystery that is as keenly scripted as it is paced, and whose many threads are held firmly together by an outstanding performance from Erin Doherty.

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