The opening of ITV’s ridiculously twisty new thriller is pretty darn dramatic. Psychologist Joe O’Loughlin (Aidan ‘Poldark’ Turner) is yanked out of a hospital consultation to talk a suicidal cancer patient off a window ledge. “But he’s got Parkinson’s!” yells O’Loughlin’s friend and neurologist Jack (Adam James), skidding into the room in time to see Joe, his fingers suddenly trembling, execute the kind of stunt more commonly seen in a Bond film.
The rescue makes Joe – already a bestselling media personality with a beautiful, loving wife and daughter – a tabloid hero. He’s too good to be true: caring, intelligent, with big-DILF energy and a lustrously jutting beard. He’s even asked by his private practice colleague (Sian Clifford, adding a bit of Fleabag-style acid) to take her up the aisle. Naturally, things are about to go wrong for him. And it begins, as it so often does in TV thrillers, with a brutally murdered woman.
