The First Look at 'Truelove' Features a Questionable Moral Pact Between Old Friends

Channel 4 has released a first look at Truelove its upcoming "thriller with a twist" that tells the story of a group of old friends who are forced to confront the creeping specter of their own mortality thanks to a death among their cohort, and respond by making a literal death pact. (If this all sounds a bit grim, just remember that this series hails from Charlie Corvell, the writer of the quirky serial killer love story The End of the F**ing World, so just trust that it's probably not going to be as dire as it sounds. And may well end up being strangely heartwarming.)

Truelove follows the story of a group of old friends who are reunited at a funeral. At the wake, with nostalgia and booze flowing in equal measure, talk soon takes a meditative turn and the group discusses what an ideal death might look like. And they make a drunken pact: rather than let each other suffer a slow and dreadful decline when the time comes, they'll help one another have dignified deaths. That's what true love is, after all. But what starts as a fanciful idea all too soon becomes a shocking reality. And as the series continues, it asks difficult questions about the morality of ending a life and the difficult choices older people must make when attempting to navigate their twilight years.

According to the official press release, Truelove "breaks the rules for older characters onscreen" thanks to its core cast of 70-something actors and determination to flip the ageist tropes often so prevalent in dramas like this on their heads.