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Name: Tina Years: 20 From: Bulgaria Living in: United Kingdom I am a devoted Sherlockian and Benedictian. Law student. Writer. Football is an enormous part of my life. Drama and Theatre addict. Foreign languages lover. Addicted to London. Just a... dream-girl. |
The Town is a three-part contemporary drama from Big Talk Productions starring BAFTA winner Andrew Scott alongside an outstanding ensemble cast including Julia McKenzie, Charlotte Riley, Gerard Kearns, Kelly Adams and Martin Clunes.
The first television series by Laurence Olivier award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett, The Town follows a shocking incident within an otherwise normal family. Mark Nicholas (Scott) returns to the town where he grew up to find his grandmother Betty (McKenzie) is now living in his childhood bedroom and he barely knows his teenage sister Jodie (Avigail Tlalim).
Mark is drawn back into the life he left behind. Hardest of all is meeting his first love Alice (Riley), now married with a child. Thrust into the complicated lives of his former neighbours, it’s not surprising there are awkward moments as Mark becomes reacquainted with his past, including his old friends ‘down the pub’ Lucy (Kelly Adams), Carly (Aisling Bea) and Jeff (Sam Troughton).
Running parallel with Mark’s story, we get to know the town Mayor, alcohol-soaked Len (Clunes). With his world falling in around him, Len is stumbling from one PR disaster to another. As we get to know the community, we’re also introduced to the enigmatic Inspector Franks (Douglas Hodge) from the local police force whose links to the family are stronger than it first appears.
Mark struggles to decide whether he should stay permanently to be with his family. But a new life is difficult to build in the place you used to call home and now feels like you barely know it.
Can I just tell you all how bloody well brilliant it was to see the TV promo for this? Ah, it’s nice to see that he’s going to be back on our screens! (And Julia McKenzie! Yay!)
The first episode airs on December 5th.
The story is a sequel of the amazing short-movie ‘Sea Wall’, written by Simon Stephens and brilliantly played by Andrew Scott.
Four years after Lucy’s death, there is new beginning for Alex and Helen.
P.S. I’ve done this fic with the greatest love I had in my heart, so I hope you’ll like it, even though ‘Sea Wall’ is not that popular in the fanfiction world. :)
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