Episode 1: Dr. Carmichael in dock we don't know why yet. Flashback to nine months earlier: Dr Carmichael in front of Parliamentary committee explain genetics to them, OK so far. On leaving, a smarmy bloke she's never met before congratulates her and takes her on quick tour of the Palace's nether regions; they end up in a room where the suffragette Emily Davison hid out and he ends up exploring her nether regions - and this is where it all starts to fall apart, 10 minutes in (was it even that long) she's shagging some total stranger in a cupboard - erm? All downhill from here I'm afraid: public shufty here, public shufty there, no explanation other than the tosh she keeps typing on her computer - having sex with him is like being devoured by a wolf (oh for god's sake). Eponymous Apple Tree Yard shows up (one of those cool little alley ways London has so many of), quick shufty in an alcove in said alley then off to a works leaving do where the final horrific scene is her rape by her colleague. So one hour episode, mostly inexplicable sexual encounters then she's attacked - no idea what the actual story is here.
Episode 2: Dr Carmichael docilely follows her attacker through hotel lobby and gets a taxi with him - OK I really don't get this. Later she calls her smarmy (possibly spy) lover and tells him what happened. He suggests meeting some bloke in a café where she describes her attack in graphic detail - right, you go to meet a rape counsellor in a café with other people around and describe your rape as if you're talking about last night's episode of a dull as dishwater "thriller".
Anyway, I think episode 2 is as far as I'm willing to suspend my "stretched to breaking point" reality with this so called "thriller".
Episode 2: Dr Carmichael docilely follows her attacker through hotel lobby and gets a taxi with him - OK I really don't get this. Later she calls her smarmy (possibly spy) lover and tells him what happened. He suggests meeting some bloke in a café where she describes her attack in graphic detail - right, you go to meet a rape counsellor in a café with other people around and describe your rape as if you're talking about last night's episode of a dull as dishwater "thriller".
Anyway, I think episode 2 is as far as I'm willing to suspend my "stretched to breaking point" reality with this so called "thriller".