6.045 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestFearing for her safety, Ophelia desperately seeks help. Amid shocking revelations, she questions everything that's happened since she met Michael.
English student Ophelia falls in love with her married lecturer, seeing in him all the answers to her needs. When their affair is interrupted by a shocking and tragic death, Ophelia finds herself trapped in a world where she can no longer trust her own mind.
Acting
Emmett Scanlan's charming predator act is skin-crawling
Production
That Irish manor house is basically a character
Writing
Lisa McGee's dialogue snaps with Derry Girls wit, then chills
Creators
Lisa McGee, Tobias Beer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Cambridge and Northern Ireland, the series weaponizes Irish gothic tradition — crumbling big houses, buried secrets, and the land itself as witness to colonial and personal violence.
This was Paul Mescal's first major TV role before Normal People made him everyone's problematic fave; his brother Sean was originally written as older until casting saw his vulnerable intensity.
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