Playing Nice

Matt Roush says...

A parent’s worst nightmare becomes the source for emotional manipulation and legal conflict in a gripping four-part drama starring James Norton (Grantchester) and Niamh Algar (Dances with Wolves) as Pete and Maddie, whose world is rocked when they discover their adored son Theo is not their biological offspring. Enter Miles and Lucy (James McArdle and Downton Abbey alum Jessica Brown Findlay), who have been raising David, who like Theo was born prematurely and placed in the same hospital’s NICU unit. What begins as a cordial meeting between the two couples, who are from very different economic backgrounds, soon sours when it becomes evident that the wealthier Miles and Lucy have ulterior motives.

Norton can also be seen in a much less sympathetic light as the villain of Sally Wainwright‘s 2014 thriller Happy Valley, which joins the BritBox library today. (Seasons 2 and 3 drop Wednesday and Thursday.) Also new to BritBox: all five seasons of Wainwright’s golden-age romantic dramedy Last Tango in Halifax.

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