Pick of the Day - The Stepfather, 9pm
To have lost one daughter is unfortunate. To lose two is a pretty good start for a thriller.
In last night's opening instalment we met mini-cab driver Dougie (Philip Glenister) whose teenage kids have a nasty habit of vanishing. His own little girl did a bunk three years ago.
And now, just as he has got married again to Maggie (Lindsey Coulson), his brand-new stepdaughter, Scarlett, has gone missing. Not that viewers will have been sorry to see the back of her - having witnessed the vicious speech she gave at her mum's wedding or the clumsy attempts to make Dougie look like a perv.
Even her hair managed to be annoying.
In fact, the biggest mystery of all is why on earth Maggie divorced her nice first husband (Robert Bathurst) and then held on to her ghastly girl.
However, just as Dougie starts to look as guilty as hell, we begin to have serious doubts about Scarlett's real dad as well.
And as the two men drive "all over London" (actually the same Soho street again and again) looking for her, we're kept guessing about which of them is to blame for her disappearance.
Is it both of them? Neither of them?
And why don't they save on petrol and just park outside Topshop, where all teenage girls are bound to show up sooner or later?
Buckle up for a very silly ending.
In last night's opening instalment we met mini-cab driver Dougie (Philip Glenister) whose teenage kids have a nasty habit of vanishing. His own little girl did a bunk three years ago.
And now, just as he has got married again to Maggie (Lindsey Coulson), his brand-new stepdaughter, Scarlett, has gone missing. Not that viewers will have been sorry to see the back of her - having witnessed the vicious speech she gave at her mum's wedding or the clumsy attempts to make Dougie look like a perv.
Even her hair managed to be annoying.
In fact, the biggest mystery of all is why on earth Maggie divorced her nice first husband (Robert Bathurst) and then held on to her ghastly girl.
However, just as Dougie starts to look as guilty as hell, we begin to have serious doubts about Scarlett's real dad as well.
And as the two men drive "all over London" (actually the same Soho street again and again) looking for her, we're kept guessing about which of them is to blame for her disappearance.
Is it both of them? Neither of them?
And why don't they save on petrol and just park outside Topshop, where all teenage girls are bound to show up sooner or later?
Buckle up for a very silly ending.
Original article can be found here.
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