A Mother's Son was shown on American PBS TV in April 2015. I watched it back to back without stopping. Bit like a book you can't put down, total page turner.
At first I wondered if it was trying to be another Broadchurch as it's set in a seaside town and it's got some big name British actors featured but it was more straightforward and less convoluted.
I enjoyed it immensely; all the actors were superb especially Hermione Norris, whom I last saw in Val McDermid's mystery series Wire in the Blood and before that Cold Feet. This character was totally different to both those and totally relatable. I kept thinking what if this was my son or daughter? How would I react? I hope I never know. Also Martin Clune is so typecast to me as Doc Martin I could hardly see past that but tried very hard and in the end succeeded. The mother of the dead girl, Annabelle Apsion, is also in Doc Martin and Call the Midwife and even though she was only in this show for a few minutes her grief and numbness shone - mesmerising performance.
The only niggle I have is that the mother looked into the internet search history of her son to find lots of violent porno references and I wish they had elaborated on this topic/influence/cause as this is something I'm sure many parents are having a hard time dealing with in today's instant world when porn is simply a click of the button away.
Very believable and well done to all involved.
At first I wondered if it was trying to be another Broadchurch as it's set in a seaside town and it's got some big name British actors featured but it was more straightforward and less convoluted.
I enjoyed it immensely; all the actors were superb especially Hermione Norris, whom I last saw in Val McDermid's mystery series Wire in the Blood and before that Cold Feet. This character was totally different to both those and totally relatable. I kept thinking what if this was my son or daughter? How would I react? I hope I never know. Also Martin Clune is so typecast to me as Doc Martin I could hardly see past that but tried very hard and in the end succeeded. The mother of the dead girl, Annabelle Apsion, is also in Doc Martin and Call the Midwife and even though she was only in this show for a few minutes her grief and numbness shone - mesmerising performance.
The only niggle I have is that the mother looked into the internet search history of her son to find lots of violent porno references and I wish they had elaborated on this topic/influence/cause as this is something I'm sure many parents are having a hard time dealing with in today's instant world when porn is simply a click of the button away.
Very believable and well done to all involved.