ONE OF US, BBC1, 9pm
THIS is a new four-part drama set in Edinburgh and the Highlands. It’s from the writers of the James Nesbit-starring drama The Missing and it’s equally melodramatic.
Adam and Grace are young newlyweds who are murdered in their Edinburgh flat on their return from honeymoon. A drug addict stands in their blood-stained flat and is soon flogging their possessions to fund his habit.
As the young couple lie on their mortuary slabs we see how their respective families, up in the Highlands, are shattered and grieving, and how they start to bicker and blame one another.
But then the murder suspect steals a car in Edinburgh and does something unexpected, and this throws the families into turmoil.
It’s a bleak drama, with constant sobbing, battering rain and furious storms. I just hope the great cast don’t get lost in wild melodrama.
BEAUTY AND THE BAKER, C4, 10pm
“ISRAELI comedy”. I’d never put those two words together until now. This new series is a subtitled Hebrew-language romantic comedy, with the first episode going out tonight and the remainder to be found on demand.
Amos is a young working-class man, living at home and working in the family business as a baker. He’s been dating the unstable Vanessa for nine years and is under pressure to propose, even though his family are urging him to “dump that wacko”.
As they have dinner in a fashionable Tel Aviv restaurant, where Vanessa is painfully expectant of a ring, poor Amos goes to the bathroom to gather his thoughts. As he’s agonising over the urinals, a supermodel, Noa, sweeps in (there was a queue at the ladies) and begins to flirt.
Getting rid of “wacko” Vanessa, and falling in love with millionaire Noa, is the theme of the opening episode. The agony of the Vanessa break-up often makes it more like a drama, but then a sly, funny line pierces the gloom.
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