Trust Me
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Great British School Swap
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Maybe it's springtime madness, or maybe the Brexit shambles has driven the entire country round the twist, but most of the current crop of drama is simply nuts.
Kate Beckinsale is running around central Africa, dodging exploding cars in The Widow as she searches for a husband who likes to do his travelling inside a wooden crate. Morven Christie is a policewoman in The Bay, so busy having drunken quickies with murder suspects that she can't see her own children are feral delinquents.
But these daft thrillers are positively sane, compared to the delirium of Trust Me (BBC1) — a hospital whodunit starring John Hannah as a consultant so creepy that he ought to be wearing a silk cape and fangs.
John Hannah stars as a consultant so creepy that he ought to be dressed as a vampire. He is having an affair with a nurse, played by Ashley Jensen
Alfred Enoch, who grew up playing a student wizard in the background of the Harry Potter movies, is Corporal Jamie McCain. He's been flown home after an ambush Somewhere Foreign wiped out his platoon and left him paralysed.
Inevitably, a murder mystery starring a bedbound sleuth is going to be a bit static, but that wasn't a problem for Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective.
Sadly, there's no classic big band soundtrack here, just a lot of ominous electronic music to accompany Jamie's flashbacks and nightmares.
In between bedside interrogations by the military police, Jamie is pestered by fellow inmate Danny, a conspiracy theorist.
Alfred Enoch (right) plays an Army corporal who has been paralysed in action. He begins investigating suspicions of a high death rate at the hospital where he is being treated
Danny is convinced that one of the medical staff is
