A marriage, an art class, and a psychopath walk into your living room.
Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestDavid is forced to accept Holly's departure, and Holly moves in with Gordon.
Holly Elliot is a university graduate taking an evening class in art appreciation. Her husband, David, on the other hand, works for a mail-order firm and is trying hard to keep up with Holly by taking an extramural degree in his spare time. Their lives are about to be irrevocably upended.
Acting
Brigit Forsyth's restrained unraveling is masterclass subtlety.
Writing
Robin Chapman's script weaponizes politeness into tension.
Creator
Robin Chapman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for ITV in 1972, this is pre-'prestige TV' television drama—glossy production values meeting genuinely disturbing content that wouldn't feel out of place in a 2024 limited series.
Robin Chapman wrote this after his own extramural art class experiences; the specificity of David's mail-order job and Holly's pretentious classmates comes from lived, observed class tension.
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