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Two generations confront ghosts of the past in an action-packed six-part thriller written by brothers Harry and Jack Williams, creators of Angela Black and The Tourist. Journalist Edward Green (Freddie Highmore) has always believed that his estrange mother, Julie (Keeley Hawes), worked as a head hunter so he's shocked to learn she is a retired hit woman with a lot of skeletons in her closet. Julie survives an attempt on her life with consummate ease and has to go on the run with Edward when other assassin materialise to claim the bounty on her head. Working together to survive, mother and son slowly rebuild bridges, except that Julie insists they will not talk about Edward's biological father, whose identity is a mystery. Gina Gershon, Jack Davenport and Alan Dale also star
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Julie (Keeley Hawes) is single, semi-retired, perimenopausal and living in isolation on a beautiful Greek island. When she receives a visit from her sensitive, nervous, half-estranged son Ed (Freddie Highmore), their reunion is tense enough to begin with but becomes even more so when Julie’s past rears its head: she was, and still is, an eliteassassin, but now the organisation she used to work for has been compromised and she herself is in danger.
Brought to you by writers Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing, The Tourist), this enjoyably eventful drama is basically Killing Eve with a spiky, sarcastic, middle-aged Brit who has had enough of your nonsense as the formidable but bored killing machine, crossed with one of those comedy thrillers where ordinary people get – caught up in a lethal conspiracy and have to embark on an improvised international odyssey to survive. It’s silly but Hawes and Highmore ably sell it.
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