This series starts on a dire note. David Tennant plays cozy community GP Tom, the occasionally grieving spouse who is found alive-while his three daughters and his wife are found dead-in a house fire.
The story is told mostly in flashbacks that depict the unraveling of Tom and Kate's marriage through the eyes of Kate's friend Jess and her cop husband Steve.
Because Tom is a GP, medical issues are important to the plot. I'm in health care and I'd have to say that part of the plot is a shaky.
First, antidepressants are commonly prescribed, at least in the US, for postpartum depression, so Kate's antidepressant therapy was not necessarily an ominous piece of evidence against Tom. Maybe Tom should have farmed Kate's therapy out to another doc-the guy with the glasses?-but otherwise, it's not questionable conduct on his part.
The thing that stood out to me was Kate's alcohol consumption. No warning stickers on Kate's medication bottle? Alcohol is a depressant by itself and would have interacted with Kate's medication regimen as well. Kate drank to excess (did Tom let her?), which wouldn't have helped her recovery and would have interacted with her medication and compromised her ability to function.
Her apparent mental state and conduct in the weeks before her death does make her role as possible perpetrator plausible, which I guess is the point.
Also, very important: the mode of death for Kate and the girls would have taken hours, not minutes.
But, aside from that not so small thing, Tom does show himself to be a creep in flashback and in the plot present. But does that make him a murderer? A tour de force for David Tennant, plus kudos to the rest of the cast.
The story is told mostly in flashbacks that depict the unraveling of Tom and Kate's marriage through the eyes of Kate's friend Jess and her cop husband Steve.
Because Tom is a GP, medical issues are important to the plot. I'm in health care and I'd have to say that part of the plot is a shaky.
First, antidepressants are commonly prescribed, at least in the US, for postpartum depression, so Kate's antidepressant therapy was not necessarily an ominous piece of evidence against Tom. Maybe Tom should have farmed Kate's therapy out to another doc-the guy with the glasses?-but otherwise, it's not questionable conduct on his part.
The thing that stood out to me was Kate's alcohol consumption. No warning stickers on Kate's medication bottle? Alcohol is a depressant by itself and would have interacted with Kate's medication regimen as well. Kate drank to excess (did Tom let her?), which wouldn't have helped her recovery and would have interacted with her medication and compromised her ability to function.
Her apparent mental state and conduct in the weeks before her death does make her role as possible perpetrator plausible, which I guess is the point.
Also, very important: the mode of death for Kate and the girls would have taken hours, not minutes.
But, aside from that not so small thing, Tom does show himself to be a creep in flashback and in the plot present. But does that make him a murderer? A tour de force for David Tennant, plus kudos to the rest of the cast.
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