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Some ghosts of the past refuse to be silenced in a six-part thriller based on an original story idea by the bestselling author Harlan Coben, who co-wrote the series with BAFTA-winner Danny Brocklehurst. Forensic psychologist Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin) reluctantly returns home after his charismatic father, Dr Jonathan Lazarus (Bill Nighy), dies by suicide. The grieving son experiences strange visions that compel him to become entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he offers emotional support to his sister, Jenna (Alexandra Roach). Joe uncovers fresh evidence and revisits the circumstances surrounding his father's passing and the murder of another sibling 25 years ago

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Jack Seale

Co-created and co-written by Harlan Coben (with veteran British TV scribe Danny Brocklehurst) but not based on a novel, this psychological thriller is a little different to most recent Coben TV dramas, as evidenced by the fact that Bill Nighy plays a character who dies in the first five minutes. He’s a psychiatrist whose son (Sam Claflin), also in the profession, is prompted by his father’s apparent suicide to investigate the deaths of some of the dead man’s patients.

Elements of the supernatural make an already feverish drama even more heightened, as does direction that never chooses subtlety when woozy, echoey spookiness is available. If you like a drama where you’re not sure what’s real and you won’t worry if some things never make sense, throw yourself in.

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6.3/10

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