Silk

Silk – BBC1 Tuesdays 9.0pm

If you didn’t see the first series of this Peter Moffat written legal series – don’t make the same mistake again.

Based on this 1st of 6 – superb. It promises to be as good as anything you’ll see for many a day. Apart from the writing, the characterisation is acute and the playing across the whole cast nigh on faultless: led by Maxine Peake who is laying down work to justify the judgement that she might just be the best actress currently working in TV.

A treat. If sometimes, as this week, an uncomfortable one.

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