TV Review | Teasers of Safe House

<h1>TV Review | Teasers of Safe House</h1>

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Safe House is Monday night's new four-section dramatization, and "safe"' is the agent word in this by-the-book accumulation of ITV thriller buzzwords. Christopher Eccleston stars as Robert, an ex-policeman who left the power in shadowy circumstances.

He now lives with his wife Katy (Marsha Thomason) in pure disconnection some place in the Lake District. Ex-partner Mark (Patterson Joseph) comes to visit, putting money on the way that Robert would need back at work – don't all ex-coppers who are frequented by that last, unsolved case? So he approaches the couple with a proposal; why not change over their remote home into a "safe house"?

In the interim, on a day out, the Blackwell family are menaced by precisely the kind of absurdly competent scoundrel why should impossible be put off by an off the beaten path area or a couple security cams. After child Joe barely gets away from a seize endeavor, father David (Jason Merrells) is left to recover in clinic while his wife and two youngsters move into their new transitory home. "You're totally protected. Nobody knows you're here," Robert consoles them.

Author Michael Crompton is new from ITV's agreeable Code of a Killer, however while that two-parter had a period setting and David Threlfall in a dirty macintosh to hold our advantage, Safe House attempted to stand separated from the numerous other unremarkable thrillers in the calendars. This opening scene obediently presented a few teasers: who is the dreadful, beardy man? Why has he got it in for the Blackwells? Furthermore, who shot Susan Reynolds? Yet with dull characters and an anticipated plot, the most squeezing one of all was: "Better believe it, however who cares.
 
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