- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
The Town’s raffish mayor (wonderful Martin Clunes) is ready for yet another photo opportunity at the opening of yet another building. But he’s looking to his legacy: “Open everything you can,” he advises his long-suffering lieutenant, “it earns respect.” Well, only until he tells a cheeky child to “p*** off”.
It’s little moments like these that make The Town such a triumph. Everyone has a part to play, including the disreputable mayor, in the central story of angry, unhappy Mark (Andrew Scott), his younger sister Jodie who is adrift and reckless, and their almost invisible gran. Their little family unit looks as if it’s broken beyond repair when a long-kept secret emerges.
For Mark, nothing in his life fits, which leads him to seek comfort where he really shouldn’t.
About this programme
2/3. Mark is beginning to adjust to life in the town and finds a temporary position with the mayor's deputy at the council offices where his mum used to work, but he stumbles across a devastating secret about her that leaves him reeling. Meanwhile, teenage sister Jodie seems to be going off the rails, mixing with a dangerous older boy from school, and grandmother Betty starts a job at a local hotel, where she strikes up an odd friendship with a younger man. Drama, starring Andrew Scott, Avigail Tlalim, Charlotte Riley, Julia McKenzie and Gerard Kearns.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Mark
- Andrew Scott
- Betty
- Julia McKenzie
- Jodie
- Avigail Tlalim
- Len
- Martin Clunes
- Shireen
- Goldy Notay
- Daniel
- Gerard Kearns
- Insp Franks
- Douglas Hodge
- Carly
- Aisling Bea
- Lucy
- Kelly Adams
- Alice
- Charlotte Riley
- Ann
- Dorothy Atkinson
- Ashley
- Callum Turner
- Karl
- Jon Foster
- Pam
- Lizzie Hopley
- Barry
- Tim Steed
- Harry
- Toby Regbo
- Jeff
- Sam Troughton
- Isabella
- Hanako Rose
- Hannah
- Cate Hamer
- Photographer
- Paul Longely
- Kid
- Michael Olatunji
- Police constable
- Laurence Hobbs
- Police officer
- Dylan Charles
Crew
- Director
- Colin Teague
- Executive Producer
- Kenton Allen
- Executive Producer
- Simon Curtis
- Executive Producer
- Matthew Justice
- Producer
- Luke Alkin
- Writer
- Mike Bartlett
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