Tuppence Middleton and Martin Compston lead barely anemic ITV thriller Our House
“There’s nothing you or I can do to get it back”
What would you do if at some point, you arrived residence to search out that your stuff had all gone, a household of strangers have been transferring into your home and also you couldn’t pay money for your husband. Such is the premise of ITV thriller Our House, written by Simon Ashdown from Louise Candlish’s novel and successfully if not outstandingly directed by Sheree Folkson.
The different query the present asks is is there any draw back to getting down and soiled with Rupert Penry-Jones (in character or not…) to which the reply is unequivocably ‘no’, though [mild spoiler] Tuppence Middleton’s Fi would possibly finally disagree after her comprehensible resolution performs a component within the extremely tangled issues that come to move.
The four-parter does an honest job of unravelling its narrative in an attractive approach. As we comply with Fi’s mildly terrified confusion within the current day, flashbacks take us to the current previous and the familial state of affairs she shared with Martin Compston’s Bram and their two youngsters, rapidly coming to grasp that it wasn’t a mattress of roses and hassle has been brewing for some time.
It’s all a bit unbelievable in the most effective form of pulpy approach – meet-cutes in lifts, scary automotive chases at night time, flirty neighbours and separated {couples} arising with ridiculous residing preparations. Middleton is probably slightly too glacially cool to actually interact because the lead right here, Compston is extra enjoyable as doofus Bram and Penry-Jones is large quantities of enjoyable (and smoking scorching) as mysterious Mike.