CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews new BBC TV drama Us
Daily MailUs BBC1, last night Rating: There are not many suburban chores more therapeutic than a trip to the tip. Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves star as Douglas and Connie in the new BBC drama Us Then he sat at the recycling centre, listening to Mozart on the car stereo, before venting his misery on cardboard packaging. Tom Hollander captures emotionally inadequate Douglas so perfectly that, from the first scene, it felt as if we had known him for years. Actress Thaddea Graham with her onscreen boyfriend Tom Taylor in the drama which is based on the acclaimed David Nicholls novel Tom Hollander captures emotionally inadequate Douglas so perfectly that, from the first scene, it felt as if we had known him for years Gina Bramhill and Iain De Caestecker play the couple when they met, at a dinner party in the mid-1990s. Unless you have read the book by David Nicholls, which I have not, it is impossible to guess whether Douglas and Connie will still be together at the end of this four-part drama.
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