Run is a drama series that have included The Returned. Each episode runs into one another, with a minor character in one becoming the central one in the next, but at its core it belongs much more in the familiar feel-bad tradition. The sort of thing that usually gets described as "gritty". From the opening shots of single mum Carol (Olivia Colman) buying some cheap lagers before going to the south London council flat where her teenaged sons are goofing around smoking dope, to the final one of her sobbing as the boys get nicked, Run was set with cast-iron determinism. No twists, no surprises. Unless you count Colman spitting the word "cunt" with venom five minutes in; call me sheltered but I had never imagined Colman being able to say the C-word as if it was part of her everyday vocab. But when she said it a second time it came with the same inevitability as the mindless murder, domestic violence and the boys who were too stupid to wash the bloodstains off their own trackies.
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