Its plot-a thirteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a paedophile ring-reads on paper as nastily sensationalist. Save Me is a thriller that goes to very uncomfortable places (and I don’t just mean Lewisham). The central cast and characters are so well-drawn that a proposed second series would be welcome despite it requiring series one to end, some would say frustratingly, on an ellipsis rather than a full stop. Graham and Suranne Jones are some of the best around, and, along with Jason Flemyng, Susan Lynch and Kerry Godliman, make up one of the strongest TV debut casts in years. Getting your mates in to do a job for you doesn’t always work out for the best, but when you’re Lennie James and your mate is Stephen Graham, it really couldn’t go better. The rest of Save Me’s ensemble would need to be something special not to seem flyaway by comparison, and happily, they’re just that. In their scale and depth and sheer charisma, they make other TV characters feel weightless. You could no more contain them inside a television screen than you could keep an oil tanker in your bath. Lennie James playing Nelly Rowe in Save Meis the same blessed mix of writing and performance as Sarah Lancashire playing Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley or Ian McShane playing Al Swearingen in Deadwood. That’s the power of a character like his he’s irrefutable.
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