His gritty new drama about a farmer caught up in country lines drug gangs feels a long way from cosy Cornwall
, Martin Clunes hasn’t strayed far for his follow-up role. Still on ITV, he has hopped across the Bristol Channel to rural Wales ., instead of a countryside doctor, Clunes is now a widowed farmer, Nathan Williams, facing down the many threats to modern agricultural life. Farms around his are being bought up by people with no intention of continuing to farm and developers are circling as debts build up.
But according to the show’s publicity, it is Johnny’s shifty pal and incriminating parcel that will prove to be the main thrust of a story about the creeping danger ofFor example, the first episode heavily features Nathan’s paranoia over drones that he keeps spotting hovering over his land, which I initially took to be related to the greedy potential developers but apparently seem more likely to be connected to the drug gangs.
But the show’s beginning does not do nearly enough to establish its purported central premise, which sounds genuinely exciting and potentially crucial for drawing attention to a problem that it is all too easy for much of the country to ignore. If county lines is indeed to be at the show’s core, it needs to be bedded in early on to convince viewers to come back. As it is, though a perfectly fine episode of television,‘Out There’ airs on ITV1 at 9pm on 19 January
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