Streaming on: Netflix

Episodes viewed: 4 of 4

Following their collaboration on Boiling Point, Stephen Graham and director Philip Barantini have reunited for another tense four-parter. Like the film that series was based on, each episode of this new show is shot in one long, continuous take. But instead of screaming bloody murder at pots and pans and unfortunate staff, Graham and Jack Thorne’s script deals with an actual murder, one that tears the local community apart.

The first episode picks up in medias res: introducing us to the Miller family as police arrest their youngest child, Jamie. Easy answers are hard to come by, but clues as to what really happened are organically threaded throughout the four episodes, set days and then months apart across various locations. Each unfolds like a play, homing in on the different people involved as they contend with the murder in real time, facing toxic masculinity,...