Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestRuth is caught between loyalty to the Traveller community and exposing who she believes is the killer. Will she do the right thing?
Overton is a small, countryside village where farming is its bread and butter and race horses are its beating heart. When the body of a local resident is found under a tractor, destructive forces are unleashed and the entire community is forced to watch their secrets exposed... chilling secrets that will change their particular way of life forever.
Acting
Billy Howle and Callum Turner's tortured friendship carries the whole thing.
Cinematography
Sun-drenched fields hiding absolute rot underneath.
Writing
Jack Thorne nails how teens actually talk when adults aren't listening.
Creator
Jack Thorne
Billy Howle
James Warwick
Callum Turner
Eli Bray
Charlotte Spencer
Tina Fallon
Yasmin Paige
Ruth Rosen
Jordan Stephens
Rob Kendle
Faye Marsay
Janine Riley
Jessie Cave
Annie Maddocks
Tommy McDonnell
Dominic Richards
Tommy Knight
Cal Bray
Adrian Rawlins
DCI Simson
Hana Luheshi
Marah
Kim Vithana
DI Mariner
Kerry Fox
Jackie Warwick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Thorne wrote this between This Is England '86 and His Dark Materials, clearly working through some rural trauma.
The show predicted the UK's later obsession with 'posh crime' like Saltburn and The Favourite—class anxiety in pretty packaging.
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