We admit, it was hard to concentrate while watching this. Has Ms Friel had plastic surgery? We know we shouldn't get distracted by such things. Why should we care? Well OK, Dan doesn't, really, he's just mildly curious, but Ali.... The thing is, she looks slightly odd. This is the beautiful actor who broke new ground with a lesbian kiss, and, umm, put her dad under the patio, but hey, he deserved it? Yes? No? See how one distraction leads to another? Anyway, it's absurd, because either she's just had some other kind of Hollywood makeover that makes her look odd, or she's been so dissatisfied with her looks, in her thirties (or has succumbed to others' criticism) that she's changed them. So here's the disclaimer, because first consideration was given to an examination of facial features from various angles shown. This didn't, we must add, stretch to slo-mo, stills or HD, so it stops short of an obsession. YES IT DOES. But...
... not much happened, which may seem strange for a drama based on a Nicci French novel. Ellie Manning (Friel) finds out her husband Greg has died in a car accident with another woman. For plot, that's pretty much it. She runs about emoting. Did he have an affair? Her friends think so, even his friends think so, but no-one has a clue. By the end of the first episode, of three, she's got precisely nowhere in finding out.
Friel's performance is anything but plastic, and she's matched by Marc Warren as her expired but conveniently handy husband. They even manage to make corny lines like "That's the woman I'm going to marry" sound, if not good, then at least slightly less corny. But that still leaves us in the position of having no TWNH moments because not enough has actually happened. Watch on? We'll see.
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