- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
One of the best things about this series is not knowing how it will unfold. We start each week with a fresh group of characters and no idea why they will come undone. It’s pretty rare in TV that we’re quite so clueless as to what’s coming down the line and it’s a good feeling (though it’s about the only good feeling we get from Accused, which likes to leave us wrung out like dishcloths from all its pain and torment).
So stop reading now if you haven’t seen the trailers and want to come to tonight’s play fresh. Let’s just say that this week’s trap door opens under the life of Mo (Anne-Marie Duff), a hairdresser who defies her local teenage gang by opening her shop on a day when the gang has demanded all shops be shut.
Duff is terrific, but she has the misfortune to appear alongside the peerless Olivia Colman, who plays Mo’s best friend Sue. If at least one of Colman’s scenes tonight isn’t on a Bafta clip reel in nine months’ time, I’d be very surprised.
About this programme
2/4. Hairdresser Mo Murray refuses to be intimidated by a local gang and, supported by her best friend Sue but against the advice of her own family, decides to disregard its leader's instruction to close her salon on the day of a member's funeral. Retribution follows when a youngster is shot and killed, and matters escalate until members of the Murray family find themselves in the dock. Drama, co-written by Jimmy McGovern, starring Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless), Ruth Sheen, Olivia Colman (Rev) and Thomas Brodie Sangster.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Mo Murray
- Anne-Marie Duff
- Mo's mum
- Ruth Sheen
- Sue Brown
- Olivia Colman
- Jake Murray
- Thomas Brodie Sangster
- Sean Brown
- Oliver Lee
- Martin Cormack
- Joe Dempsie
- Maxine
- Melanie Clare
- Doreen
- Susan McCardle
- Jill
- Marie Critchley
- Leanne
- Hayley Tamaddon
- DI Moors
- William Travis
- PC Tony
- John Catterall
- Judge
- Michael Maloney
- Prosecuting counsel
- Andrew Readman
- TV producer
- Ross Adams
Crew
- Director
- David Blair
- Producer
- Sita Williams
- Writer
- Jimmy McGovern
- Writer
- Carol Cullington
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