Joanne Froggatt stars as "Angela Black" within the new Spectrum thriller collection.
You may add “Angela Black” to the record of riveting psychological dramas wrapped in a trope-y bow with the creepy, abusive husband and his long-suffering spouse who takes issues into her personal palms — by means of a collection of “didn’t see that coming” twists and turns.
Joanne Froggatt (“Downtown Abbey”) stars within the new Spectrum collection as Angela Black. On the floor, has all of it — a loving partner, the French-born Olivier (Michiel Huisman), a flowery home in an unique neighborhood and two younger boys who idolize their dad and inform mother (or mum, it’s set in England) that they love her when she drops them off for college.
Or does she? The six-part collection, premiering Monday (Feb. 7), is billed as a “spellbinding thriller” for a purpose. We be taught, shortly, that Olivier is a jealous, narcissistic monster. He beats Angela mindless over some imagined slight after a cocktail party at their home — “You wished to embarrass me!” he yells at her (she didn’t) — knocking out considered one of her entrance enamel and leaving her face bruised and bloodied.
Angela, who works part-time at a canine shelter, hides her bodily wounds with loads of make-up and covers up the reality about beastly Olivier with a string of lies — each to herself (she took him again after he fractured her ribs 4 months earlier) and to anybody who asks about her black-and-blue face (she says she ran right into a door). His “apology” is leaving her a bunch of money underneath her pillow a la the tooth fairy. Yikes.
Following that ugly incident, Angela is having a drink outdoors of a bar when she’s approached by Ed Harris (Samuel Adewunmi), a personal investigator (of types) who admits that he’s been following her on Olivier’s dime to dig up dust for a fast divorce through which Olivier needs full custody of their sons. However there’s extra to the story: Ed doesn't need to assist Olivier — he feels badly for Angela, and he’s obtained his (sketchy) ideas, in spite of everything — and he tells her, elliptically, about Olivier’s sordid previous. “Your husband is a chunk of s–t,” he says, offers her a burner telephone and divulges that Olivier had a mistress from his office who vanished and is presumed lifeless. Use your creativeness.
That’s the essential setup for “Angela Black,” however there’s far more, in fact, because the collection unfolds. Ed steers Angela towards extra incriminating proof vis-a-vis Olivier, the boys’ white rabbit is mauled by a fox (or is it?) … and it will get ugly. Actually ugly.
The collection has a wonderful artistic pedigree; it’s written by Emmy-winning producers and screenwriters Harry and Jack Williams (“The Lacking,” “Fleabag”) and Froggatt (resolute), Huisman (chilling) and Adewunmi (regretful for previous deeds) play their roles to the hilt. Heartily really helpful for all and, if you happen to’re a fan of, these Lifetime “Lady in Jeopardy” films, take into account this one a notch above that melodramatic franchise.
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