Trauma, ITV ★★★★★
Mike Bartlett is the mastermind who wrote Doctor Foster for the BBC.
His brilliant three-part psychological thriller follows two fathers: Dan (John Simm – who incredibly also stars in Collateral on BBC Two at the same time) and Jon (Adrian Leicester). Their lives collide when Dan's 15 year-old son Alex is unexpectedly stabbed and dies in the trauma department under consultant Jon Allerton's care.
This is an excellent story of malevolence, culpability and deceit. Dan brings all the cold, calculating cruelty and investigative prowess of Doctor Foster to a man hellbent on the destruction of a richer, better educated, more middle class man.
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WHEN
Monday 12 February, 9pm
WHERE
ITV 1