The only person who suspects the whole thing might be a bit dodge is warm, caring family liaison officer Bailey (Sally Lindsay), who has a side-hustle in investigating crime from her kitchen table and getting needy phone calls from her mum. But the cops swallow their story without so much as a word of protest, backed up by Angela – and you thought Line of Duty made the police look bad. Not least because a) Sam seems to be commuting from Cornwall for his job as London’s most provocative talk radio host, b) Rebecca works for a local newspaper that has survived journalism’s perpetual cuts and everyone works on a shiny Mac, and c) the couple behave as though they’ve never met before.
Next thing we know, Sam (Tom Meeten, woefully miscast), Rebecca (Elaine Cassidy) and their friend Angela (Helen Behen) – who was sleeping over after the party – end up staging a crime scene to make it look like self-defence, and Syed is lying dead on their rug, positioned as though he were Tutankhamun (but holding a stanley knife). Sam catches one of them, named Syed (Sonny Poon Tip), and stabs him – despite the fact that he was trying to get away. It turns out that after hosting a dinner party, Sam and Rebecca Hickey’s lovely bespoke home by the sea is burgled by two hapless teens. She seems a bit reticent about whether or not the man is still in her house, for reasons that will soon transpire. It begins with a woman making a panicked 999 call to report a burglary. Channel 5 is investing heavily in drama – its recent thriller The Drowning was well received, and Jodie Turner-Smith is set to play Anne Boleyn in a heavily anticipated new series, so it’s unfortunate that this one is such a clanger.
But like the woefully amateur burglars who set things in motion, everything about Intruder feels bungled or badly thought through, and lots of it is just plain bad. Dramatic inciting incident that forces the protagonists to make terrible decisions? Tick. Married couple in a loveless relationship? Tick. Written and directed by Gareth Tunley, whose debut The Ghoul was Bafta-nominated, this should have been a wheeze. And I love them – just throw in some top tier property porn and proof that money can’t buy you happiness, and I’m prepared to make my peace with any number of preposterous plot twists. So, I’m sad to say that the latest addition to this genre – Channel 5’s Intruder – is simply too terrible for me to overlook its hysterical twists and turns.
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New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTį one genre of TV has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, it’s ’rich people with impressive houses having a terrible time’. Shows like Doctor Foster and Big Little Lies, featuring characters high on interior design but low on morals, have provided the perfect aspirational escapism.
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