t’s not been too bad this year, I must say. Normally by the halfway point in October the TV schedules are crammed with schlocky horror stories, documentaries about the types of people who believe in ghosts and whose bathos is more terrifying than anything that could reach out from beyond the grave for Halloween-haters to breathe.
It has everything statutorily required of a six-part series commissioned for mid-October.
The bespoke detail is that the vicar is called Jack so people can be wrongfooted by her being a woman, although this trope has been absolutely ruined for ever by the Vicar of Dibley. But it helps encourage the cadaverous warden Aaron in his hostilities towards Jack, which she can add to her pile of sanity-eroding pressures.
Oh, and a very frightening-looking man has just been released from prison and I cannot think that he has great plans to add to the sum of human happiness, either. It’s all very – well, atmospheric is the word if you like that sort of thing, and dull is the word if you don’t. A lot is evoked – then evoked again – but the clues and twists and mini-revelations before the big ones come more slowly than in the book, which moved along at a fair old clip. But it looks good, moves itself and us confidently through its pacesit’s got Jane Lapotaire as a sooth-speaking old lady sitting like a spider at the centre of Chapel Croft’s web of intrigue.
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