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The Pact is a stonking standout of a crime thriller TV review: The BBC’s gripping new thriller is also a tautly-observed character study
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Anna (Laura Fraser), Nancy (Julie Hesmondhalgh), Louie (Eiry Thomas) and Cat (Heledd Gwyn) in The Pact. Photograph: Warren Orchard
Big Little Lies became a phenomenon in 2017 with its portrayal of a circle of female friends conspiring to cover up the death of a toxic man. That is also more or less the plot of the BBC’s gripping new thriller The Pact (BBC One, Monday, Tuesday).
The difference is that upper-middle-class California has been replaced by small town south Wales. This is where Anna (Laura Fraser) and her circle of besties (Eiry Thomas, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Heledd Gwynn) have helped bump off their unpleasant, coke-addicted boss Jack (Aneuri