I saw the adverts for this four part drama, the former Doctor Who star and one of the co-stars I recognised was a good reason to watch, and it looked it could be a good thing as well. Basically former police detective Robert (Christopher Eccleston) had a witness in his care, but she was shot dead one night, he also took a bullet and has been struggling with guilt ever since. Following this Robert and his wife Katy (Marsha Thomason) gave up their lives in the big city, to purchase and run a guest house in the Lake District, it was his old boss DCI Mark Maxwell (Peep Show's Paterson Joseph) that suggested that the building could be used as a safe house. Mark sends Robert the Blackwell family, who are being stalked by a man called Michael (Peter Ferdinando), who tried to kidnap their youngest son Joe (Max True), the father David (Jason Merrells) is a former prison officer who has suspended from work for reasons unknown, and estranged from his eldest son Sam (James Burrows) who has abandoned university and is living rough in his car. As time passes the criminal slowly follows the trail to try and find the Blackwells, the family find it difficult to keep up the pretence of being holidaymakers, using new identities, not communicating with the outside world, and generally worrying for their safety, especially wife/mother Ali (Nicola Stephenson) and teenage daughter Louisa (Harriet Cains), and Robert still haunted by his past is, at the same time as protecting the family, trying to find out more about how and why his witness was shot dead. Also starring Christine Tremarco as Becky, Kelly Harrison as Susan Reynolds, Nicholas Moss as Ben and Sarah Smart as Megan. Eccleston does well as the man protecting the family and doing a little investigation as well, Joseph is interesting as his suspicious but reliable boss, and Ferdinando when he comes on is a good threatening villain, the best scenes are when you thin the family will caught, some of the flashbacks to the night of the shooting, and of course the finale, involving a car chase and crash, followed by an execution, I'm not sure it was the most gripping thing, but in general it was a worthwhile crime drama. Good!
Review of Safe House
