The new series from Stephen Merchant, The Outlaws , had been billed as a drama-comedy, a dramady , so I was not anticipating its tonal swerve at the end into thriller territory.
While the ITV drama starring Ben Aldridge and Pearl Mackie initially appears to be a typical paint-by-numbers murder mystery, it sets up a grippingly complex four-part drama.
From the makers of Vera, this new drama brings together a troubled detective and a murder mystery involving a former prisoner to compellingly twisty effect