Lightfields

Series 1 - Episode 2

Lightfields
Radio Times
Review by:
Alison Graham

One of the most terrifying things about Lightfields is the awful 1970s cardigans worn by troubled writer Vivien and her daughter Clare. Horrible baggy fawn things with dreadful patterns. Were we really so bereft of taste in that reviled era?

Still, maybe the bad knitwear will scare off the ghost that whispers in the hallways and bedrooms of this Suffolk farmhouse. In 1975, Vivien and Clare are trying to make the best of a difficult stage in their lives. But Vivien has been here before, and the siren call of the ghost starts to overwhelm her and she gets a bit like Jack Nicholson in The Shining as she pecks
away at her typewriter.

The story rolls confidently, if slowly, between three eras in the life of the house. In 1944, the Felwood family struggles to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy in last week’s first episode, while in 2012 B&B owners Barry and Lorna are puzzled by their grandson Luke and his insistence that he’s seen the Tooth Fairy.

About this programme

2/5. In 1944, the family and local community struggle to come to terms with Lucy's death and Eve suspects it was no accident, but will she find any proof in the wreckage to support her theory? Meanwhile, Vivien's state of mind deteriorates as portions of her memory return in 1975, and in 2012, Pip struggles to keep up the pretence that his sister never existed. Supernatural drama, starring Dakota Blue Richards, Lucy Cohu and Michael Byrne.

Cast and crew

Cast

Eve
Dakota Blue Richards
Martha Felwood
Jill Halfpenny
Clare Mullen
Karla Crome
Vivien Mullen (1975)
Lucy Cohu
Paul Willard
Kris Marshall
Lorna Felwood
Sophie Thompson
Barry Felwood
Danny Webb
Albert Felwood
Sam Hazeldine
Pip Felwood (2012)
Michael Byrne
Dwight Lawson
Neil Jackson
John
Peter De Jersey
Lucy Felwood
Antonia Clarke
Tom (1975)
Wayne Foskett
Tom (1944)
Danny Miller
Harry Dunn
Luke Newberry
Pip Felwood (1944)
Larry Mills
Luke Willard
Alexander Aze
Cindy
Alice Sanders
Nick
Chris Mason
Vivien (1944)
Leilah de Meza
Vicar
Robin Hooper

Crew

Director
Damon Thomas
Executive Producer
Kate Lewis
Producer
Cherry Gould
Writer
Simon Tyrrell
Categories
Drama

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