'Deadwater Fell': Episode 1 Recap
If you’re looking for a pleasantly escapist drama during these dark times, I am here to tell you that new Acorn TV drama Deadwater Fell is not that show. It’s certainly a compelling series – dark and difficult, with great performances and a deeply murky and uncomfortable central mystery – but it’s not what you could under any circumstances call light.
Obviously, I think it’s worth watching, or I wouldn’t be here telling you about it, but forewarned is forearmed and all that.
David Tennant stars as Tom, a local GP in a small Scottish town who, on the surface, has it all. Respectable job, perfect wife, three beautiful little girls. The Kendricks look like a real-life version of a family from an advert, as they attend local festivals and share poignant life advice with their best friends, the Campbells, who are struggling whilst trying for a baby. The seemingly perfect foursome drinks wine, goes to the beach, plays with their collective kids, and dances at the town ceilidh. They’re kids are so perfect one gives the other a balloon – kindly and unprompted! – at the end of a night out.
