desperate measurescrime thriller featuring SherlockAmanda Abbington is the latest original drama to launch on the Channel 5 pipeline.
As the title suggests, the four-part series explores how far a mother can go to save her family when her life spirals out of control.
It began on Tuesday, February 21 at 21:00 on Channel 5 and will be simulcast several nights this week, ending on Friday.
desperate measures The film is set in the UK but was actually filmed overseas in an increasingly popular production location – here’s everything you need to know.
What desperate measures around?
desperate measures follows bank teller Rowan whose life spirals out of control when her son Finn is coerced by a local gang into a drug deal that goes awry.
Due to threats to the lives of Rowan and her son, she is tasked with recovering the money Finn lost in the deal.
After exhausting other fundraising avenues, Rowan decides her only choice is to plan a risky heist at the bank she works for and enlist the support of her ex-boyfriend and other conspirators to aid her in her desperate plan of support.
Ed Power, reviewer desperate measures I gave the series three out of five stars.
He welcomed Abbington’s performance as “a compelling portrayal of a woman on the edge”, but said it was not enough to “save a hackneyed thriller that at times felt overly predictable”.
Power concluded that while the series “worked best as a story about a woman who’s fed up and can’t take it anymore”, it was “associated with clichés about drug dealers in luxury cars and gangsters with foreign accents”. .
Where was desperate measures removed?
desperate measures plays in Manchester, but how Radio Times. com According to reports, it was actually filmed in Budapest.
Sunetra Sarker, who starred in the series, told the publication that it was “a really beautiful part of Hungary that I’ve never been to” and that the place has “a lot of phonetic similarities to the UK”.
She added, “The reason we filmed it in Budapest is because the story is not specific to a specific city. It could happen in London, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Scotland, Cardiff.”
Abington said Radio Times. com: “The building we shot in was amazing – it’s a very, very old place that looks like a cave.
“It was a real bank with a real safe, and when the film crew went out to explore it, they were locked, which would have scared me because I’m really claustrophobic — I’m not good at working with small spaces.”
The Hungarian capital has been a popular location for recent Channel 5 dramas. Teacher AND meeting both are filmed there.
Budapest has also been used to film shows such as the BBC horror series. Terror and fantastic Netflix series shadow and bone Last time.
Who is part of desperate measures?
Best known for his roles in Mr Selfridge AND sherlockleading the cast desperate measures starring Rowan.
She also performed in sketch shows. Man stroke woman and BBC crime drama cuffs.
Her colleague and friend Varisha is played by the one who played Ackley Bridge AND Accidentand also appear on Be sure to come dance.
who appears in other crime thrillers such as Luther trigger point AND defendant plays Rowan’s ex-boyfriend Patrick, while he relatively recently plays her son Finn.
Game of Thrones AND east side The actor plays the father of Rowan Mal, and also plays the gangster Christoph, who appeared, in particular, in Chase AND hell.
The cast also includes Conor, Clive Powell and Detective Simmons.
Source: I News
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