The camera never leaves the steel-grey interrogation suite of London’s Metropolitan Police as Katherine Kelly’s frosty DCI Natalie Hobbs and her five-officer team run a twelve-hour clock on murder, rape and trafficking cases. Each 41-48 minute episode is a two-hander between police and suspect, played out in real time with no flashbacks, no car chases, just the slow tightening of psychological screws. Netflix dropped the first three stories on 20 September 2019 and added four more on 16 September 2020, all filmed at Secuoya Studios Madrid (series 1) and Shepperton Studios (series 2) alongside matching French, Spanish and German editions.
Guest stars supply the fireworks: David Tennant’s doctor denies raping and killing his stepdaughter, Hayley Atwell’s career criminal spits blood at accusations she stabbed her sister’s boyfriend, Kunal Nayyar’s convicted killer toys with police over a new corpse, and Sophie Okonedo’s stone-faced wife shields her husband’s secrets. The regulars carry the emotional load; Lee Ingleby’s quietly smitten DI Tony Myerscough, Mark Stanley’s jittery DC Hugo Duffy hiding vodka in a paper cup, Rochenda Sandall’s sardonic DC Vanessa Warren counting down to early retirement.
Created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, the show was cancelled after seven episodes, picking up two 2021 Bafta nominations for supporting performances by Nayyar and Okonedo. Rotten Tomatoes logged 85% positive reviews, praising the suffocating single-location tension that turns a police interview into high-stakes theatre.
Production Details
Netflix / 2 Seasons / 7 Episodes / 2019 - Present
Created by: Jim Field Smith, George Kay
Writer(s): George Kay
Producer(s): Georgie Fallon
Cinematography: Jamie Cairney
Main Cast
Lee Ingleby as Tony Myerscough
Katherine Kelly as Natalie Hobbs
Rochenda Sandall as Vanessa Warren
Shubham Saraf as Kyle Petit
Mark Stanley as Hugo Duffy
Nicholas Pinnock as Paul Ottager
Aymen Hamdouchi as Jamie Reiss
David Tennant as Dr. Edgar Fallon
Hayley Atwell as Stacey Doyle
Youssef Kerkour as Jay Muthassim
Lolita Chakrabarti as Anita Baines
Mark Quartley as Jeremy Nicholson
