Dennis Welch dies on a County Kilkenny riverbank and leaves his three grown children nothing. The new will hands the house, the boatyard and £3 million to Susan, a local florist the family has never heard of. Daniel, Sian and Chloe ditch their grim funeral buffet to rifle through filing cabinets, chase land-registry papers and grill the parish priest, convinced Dad was coerced or senile. Their hunt darkens when the river discovery becomes a murder inquiry and detectives start asking which child last saw him alive.
Larry Lamb’s Dennis appears only in flashbacks, yet his breezy cruelty sets the tone for a story that keeps shifting sympathies. Robert James-Collier plays Daniel, the failed restaurateur who owes violent men money; Gaynor Faye is Sian, the polished GP hiding prescription fraud; Jemima Rooper’s Chloe, the baby of the family, claims she wants only the truth while carrying the biggest secret. Director Aku Louhimies shoots the Irish countryside like a postcard that’s been folded too many times, all soft greens and sudden shadows, letting writer Aschlin Ditta squeeze ever more twists from 43-minute episodes.
Channel 5 launched the series quietly on 4 September 2023, yet episode one pulled 3.39 million viewers within a week, the channel’s best drama launch in four years. Critics praised its old-fashioned propulsion: no lectures, just cliff-hangers, forged signatures and a final revelation that lands like a car crash.
Production Details
5 / 1 Season / 4 Episodes / 2023 - Present
Created by: Aschlin Ditta
Showrunner(s): Lesley Douglas, Aschlin Ditta, Angela Squire
Writer(s): Aschlin Ditta
Main Cast
Robert James-Collier as Daniel
Gaynor Faye as Sian
Jemima Rooper as Chloe
Adil Ray as Pete
Larry Lamb as Dennis
Rocco Cheetham-Karcz as Charlie
Kevin Harvey as Glen
Samantha Bond as Susan
Rory Fleck-Byrne as Nathan
Pauline McLynn as Jenny Roche
Kevin Whately as Michael
Margaret Kelly as Claire
