Channel 5's latest drama plays with the uncomfortable truth that even the closest of family members have their own agendas
– minus the wealth and glamour. A soundtrack of tense strings accompanied grainy home movie footage of three kids mucking about in front of their parents’ house. I was waiting for a shot of one of the children on a tennis court, flanked by a butler, or of all three on the back of an elephant.were from a thumpingly average family with the usual financial woes. But as we caught up with them in middle age at the start of this enjoyable drama, they were just as unhappy as the feuding media dynasty.
Golden boy Daniel was a struggling restaurant owner who needed jocular dad Dennis to bail him out. Sian was frustratedly single and fed up of dating middle-aged weirdos with strange opinions about women. We were supposed to believe that the baby of the brood, Chloe , had her life together signaled by the fact that she was the only one in a stable relationship.
Everything the three siblings took for granted came tumbling down when Dennis died unexpectedly. It was a shock, but the real bombshell centred on his will. Dennis had written his children out of it entirely and left everything to a mysterious new woman. It was an emotional blow for Sian and Chloe, but an unmitigated financial disaster for Daniel, who’d needed the inheritance to pay off the loan shark to whom he’d turned to rescue his ailing restaurant.
The new woman turned out to be the former wife of an old friend of Dennis’s. Daniel made the unwelcome discovery when he tracked down his dad’s former pal, Michael, only to learn that Dennis had run away with Michael’s wife Susan .was in part so successful because we could see a reflection of our own families in the squabbling Roys. A similarly gripping dynamic was at play in.
That short temper was unleased when Daniel, invited to give an address at his father’s cremation, broke down and lashed out at Susan.flowed from the uncomfortable truth that the closest of family members are ultimately strangers with their own agendas and demons. Even our parents are never quite the people we think they are.
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