The Rumour, based on the best-selling novel from Lesley Kara, focuses on Joanna (Rachel Shenton, All Creatures Great and Small), a young mother who has mysteriously separated from her husband (Samuel Anderson) while he works on an oil rig.
The group includes a solid mix of British dramatic talent including Emily Atack and Lucy Speed. They are weirdly unfriendly for reasons never explained and the town itself is a sterile, oddly clutter-free environment where modernist buildings are nestled in the middle of forests. Everyone knows each other, for plot reasons, through a book group.
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In an echo of the James Bulger case, the murderer in question committed the crime when she was herself a child, did her time in prison, and is now assumed to be living under a new identity. This could have been an opportunity to explore mob mentality and the kind of knee-jerk fear that causes so much social division, but instead, the cast grapple with one-note characters who don’t seem to want anything other than to unmask a killer of whom they’ve only just been made aware.
We’re given scene after scene of people in nice knitwear speaking exactly what they think instead of communicating like real humans, with subtext or conflicted motivation. “Everyone blames me for the rumour,” says Joanna in another smashing roll-neck, the end of her very long ponytail perfectly tonged and swishing in the breeze. No matter the appalling events of the day, she always has time to tong.
Lucy Speed as Rachel (Photo: 5 Broadcasting Limited/Kristof Galgoczi Nemeth/Clapperboard Studios SPV4 Ltd)People in nice coats with neat hair look pensive and hold huge glasses of wine, but the endless tropes and weak plot aren’t enough to hold the attention when every other channel is showing competing examples of the same show tackled with far more sophistication.
‘The Rumour’ continues tomorrow at 9pm on 5
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