Bouquet Of Barbed Wire: TV.com review

Metro have Bouquet Of Barbed Wire as their pick of the day.

First part of ITV’s classy remake of Andrea Newman’s intense psychological drama, starring Trevor Eve as the father whose love for daughter Prue becomes unsettlingly obsessive, and Lost In Austen’s Tom Riley as Prue’s slimy school-teacher boyfriend, who helps her turn everyone’s world catastrophically upside down.

TV.com have posted a review, with this still of Tom and Hermione Norris from the programme. Read the full review on the website.

The first nudge comes from Prue’s good-looking, English teacher boyfriend, Gavin (Tom Riley), who hates her dad, but we don’t know why..

...But it’s the dysfunctional, upper-middle-class interplay between family members, including mum Cassie (Hermione Norris), that will chill your cockles and ensure you make a date with Bouquet parts two and three. Bubbling underneath their banter and bickering are secrets and sadness. It’s also a warped coming of age story for Prue. At first she seems in control of her young life, making bad choices through deliberate rebellion, not because she’s being manipulated. When it emerges that perhaps she’s not the architect of her decisions, you’ll feel the ominous weight of what’s been done, and what’s to come.