Liar (TV Series) The Date (2017) User Reviews

It's a good start.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 2 May 2020]

Laura moves on after dumping her boyfriend straight into the arms of Andrew.

After an almost jolly ten first minutes, it takes a real turn, as Laura realises that all wasn't as it should have been. Andrew may well be gorgeous on the outside, but on the inside is he a good guy, or a monster?

It's a good first episode, I wouldn't say it's one of the best, but it's good, solid, intriguing drama.

It raises the question, is a woman believed when she claims assault, or are people quick to side with the man, or indeed vice versa.

Good start, 7/10.

Episode 1

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 11 September 2017]

Harry and Jack Williams found fame as the writer of the BBC series The Missing. Now they are in such demand that the first episode of Liar on ITV is shown opposite the first episode of Rellik on the BBC also written by the Williams siblings.

The first episode sees a nice, recently single high school teacher Laura (Joanne Froggatt) being asked out by a widowed surgeon Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd.)

Laura goes on the date in a taxi where the driver recounts how he met his wife, she booked him for a ticket as she was a traffic warden. The next morning Laura has some hazy memories that she might had been sexually assaulted.

Andrew when questioned by the police gives a totally different account of that night's events. It is a question of who to believe.

Laura is tense because of her past mental health history, also her ex is a policeman who had an affair with her sister.

Andrew's wife had committed suicide some years so both parties have a past ripe for exploration but I fear whether there is enough here to stretch out to six episodes and it is in danger of going through soap style histrionics.

The type of a person like Laura......is unbearable

[sk4443 · 3/10 · 18 December 2018]

In a word, it is the problem that Laura dumped her own identity problems onto Andrew. Of course we can look through what the show presents to us.

However the type of person which Laura is presented as is so problematic to fail finding her own spiritual balance between her own inner world and the outer world surrounding her from my perspective. What a poor thing Laura is.

However I gave three stars on the delicacy the team put on the show.

The character is so unbearable to me. The character itself is too plausible to bear with, and her side story is so obvious and desperate to blame on others about her own inner (a sort of psychological) problems.