- #Like father like son cast on acorn serial#
- #Like father like son cast on acorn series#
- #Like father like son cast on acorn tv#
The only point that Like Father Like Son disappoints is at the denouement and the revelation of who the killer is. There is a nicely written scene where Jemma Redgrave goes to see him and pleads for him to leave their son alone, only to be rebuffed with the nasty suggestion that he is entitled to conjugal visits. (Although the credibility gap here is that Davis is made to seem so uncouth and cruel and as we never get to see any of his charm, we wonder what could possibly attract a nice girl like Jemma Redgrave to him). He has been made up to look almost albinoid. Phil Davis, the actor playing the father, gives a thuggishly nasty performance. Nick Laughland creates some genuinely creepy scenes where young Somerset Prew goes to see his father in jail and we can see the father starting to psychologically play with his mind and draw him into his web. Jemma Redgrave with son Somerset Prew (l) and fiance Robson Green (c) Shaun McKenna even writes a scene that quite takes one aback, which offers up an interpretation of the strangling of Desdemona in Shakespeare’s Othello (c1603) in terms of sexual jealousy. These various aspects weave together and apart, circling around differing suspicions with considerable cleverness. There is a nice sense of mirroring throughout the script – how Jemma Redgrave’s husband was a killer who secretly strangled women, and how her husband-to-be Robson Green has a secret about his wife being strangled how both of the prospective suspects had an obsession with Morag how Jemma suddenly realises that she has gone from one husband who was secretly a killer to discovering that her prospective husband might also secretly be a killer too.
#Like father like son cast on acorn serial#
The script sets up an interesting divide as to whether the killer is Jemma Redgrave’s son Somerset Prew who may have been seduced and corrupted by his serial killer father or whether it is Jemma’s fiancee Robson Green. That is until a sudden spin is thrown on things where Jemma Redgrave confesses to Robson Green that she was previously married and that her husband is a convicted serial killer, which suddenly throws the amiably placid domestic scenario into an arena where we are not sure where things are heading.įor a relatively novice screenwriter, Shaun McKenna does an excellent job. There seems an amiable lightness to this but nothing that we have not seen in any of a million other shows. Nick Laughland follows solo mother Jemma Redgrave as she gets a new job offer, announces that she is having a relationship with her son’s teacher Robson Green and the son (Somerset Prew)’s difficulties adjusting to this. The mini-series begins with a deceptive domestic ordinariness.
#Like father like son cast on acorn series#
Director Nick Laughland has done a good deal of work in British television, notably with other crime series such as The Bill, The Last Detective, New Tricks, Silent Witness and Wire in the Blood, as well as Amnesia (2004), another fine mini-series thriller also starring Jemma Redgrave.
#Like father like son cast on acorn tv#
Like Father Like Son – no relation to the Dudley Moore-Kirk Cameron bodyswap comedy Like Father, Like Son (1987) – is a tv mini-series in the estimable tradition of the British crime thriller. Now Dee cannot be sure whether her son has started following in his father’s footsteps or whether the man who has proposed to her is a murderer too.
Morag was seen in Dominic’s arms just before she disappeared and wrote in her now missing diary and told several friends that she was having an affair with him.
Police suspect Jamie who cannot account for what he was doing at the time, until Dee stands up to lie and create an alibi for him.
Morag is then found strangled in the woods. Meanwhile, Jamie has been following schoolgirl Morag Tait to the extent that she has had to complain about him. Barker immediately begins weaving a seductive spell on Jamie’s mind. Jamie demands to go and see his father in jail and Dee reluctantly agrees to this. Dominic tells this to his teenage daughter Bethan and she lets it slip to her best friend and the story rapidly gets around the school. However, Jamie is eavesdropping on them talking and hears everything. She has told Jamie that his father was a pilot who died in an accident. When Dominic proposes to her, Dee is forced to tell him her big secret – that she was married to Paul Barker who, unknown to her, led a secret life as a serial killer and was convicted for having strangled several women. Dee Stanton announces to her fifteen year-old son Jamie that she is seeing his English teacher Dominic Milne.