Title: INSIDE MAN
Genre: miniseries (4 episodes, running time per episode: 60 minutes, drama-thriller (or black comedy - as I see it)
Location: the series is set in the UK and the USA. Filming locations included St Andrew's Church in Farnham, Godalming Railway Station, Godalming, Broad Street in Wokingham and Welcome Break Fleet Services in Fleet. ‘Inside Man’ is filmed entirely in England, specifically in Surrey, London, Berkshire, and Hampshire. Many pivotal sequences for ‘Inside Man’ are lensed across Surrey, the 12th most populous county in England, located in South East England. St Andrew’s Church on Upper Church Lane in Farnham, Bourne Woods on Lower Bourne in Farnham, Hankley Common, and seemingly Leith Hill in Redlands Woods serve as important filming sites for the series.
MAIN CHARACTERS:
Harry Watling, an English vicar forced into a difficult situation:
Jefferson Grieff, a former criminology professor on Death Row in an Arizona prison:
Janice Fife, a maths tutor who discovers a shocking secret:
Beth Davenport, a muckraking crime journalist:
Mary Watling, Harry’s wife:
Ben Watling, Harry’s teenage son:
Edgar, Harry’s deeply troubled verger:
Dillon Kempton, a serial killer on Death Row in Jefferson’s prison who acts as his assistant:
PLOT: Harry Watling is a vicar from an English town who's life becomes tangled up with that of a death row inmate (played by Stanley Tucci), an investigative journalist, and a maths tutor in the most unimaginable way.
The series has two intertwining storylines.
One storyline is set in England where a vicar makes one bad decision that leads to a chain of events that seems to ruin his whole life, carreer and family.
The other storyline is set in a high security prison is the US where a former criminology professor is on death row for murdering his wife. Awaiting his execution he solves criminal cases, including the vicar's case.
MEMORABLE QUOTE: “Everyone’s a murderer – you just need a good reason and a bad day.”
WHY DO I RECOMMEND IT? the series is set in England and a UK. It means that we can hear characters using British and American English, there's also a character with a Scottish accent. It's really interesting to compare the accents. The story is quite morbid but makes you think of how one bad decision can turn your life upside down and ruin your whole life.
