It starts with a familiar setup. Boy meets girl, boy takes girl back to his flat, boy won’t take no for an answer. Fortunately for the girl, he’s drastically underestimated her and she tosses him on to his back then uses her powers to feast upon his life force.
This exhilarating moment of feminine retribution is not just a gripping introduction to the BBC’s new supernatural series, Domino Day, but the first moment that crystallised in the mind of show creator Lauren Sequeira. “I had that scene right from the start,” she says. “I want you to feel she’s in danger, think she’s the victim, then flip it and empower her.” The man, as well as being a douchebag who brags about his pay packet and orders what he’d like her to drink, is a sadly familiar figure to many women. But to make him more odious still, it turns out he was secretly filming the entire thing, hoping to capture the sexual assault. That, too, is based in reality. “In sixth form, there was a guy that used to film girls,” says Sequiera, “and I bet it happens more now – so it went into the show.”
