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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

The Sixth Commandment review – as immaculate a piece of TV as you will ever see

Better than you’ve ever seen him … Timothy Spall as Peter Farquhar in the Sixth Commandment.
Better than you’ve ever seen him … Timothy Spall as Peter Farquhar in the Sixth Commandment. Photograph: Amanda Searle/BBC/Wild Mercury

You may think you are beyond being harrowed at this point; that age, experience and daily headlines testifying to the relentlessly awful nature of the world have created a callus on your soul that protects you from such profound disturbance. Especially via such a quotidian, unassuming – essentially friendly – form as television.

Then along comes something like The Sixth Commandment that – over the course of its four immaculate episodes – shaves that callus off scene by scene and reminds you of what television, people and your heart can still do.

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