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The Split - Season 1
When you are surprised by the past, you have only one path, which carries the consequences in all its forms. This family has only to face its past and bear the consequences of her father's return after the absence of 30 years.
16 May 1968, Ponders End, London Borough of Enfield, North London, England, UK
1959, UK
10 May 1975, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
27 September 1972, London, England, UK
2 August 1979, Newcastle, England, UK
29 December 1972, Bromley, England, UK
24 January 1987, Dublin, Ireland
May 02, 2018
Abi Morgan's drama foregrounds steely, controlled women - with male characters tending towards emotional incontinence.
May 08, 2018
The Split, really, is an entertainment and an obvious contrivance. If anything, it's guilty of not being knowing enough about it's inherent absurdity, which is forgivable.
May 02, 2018
Abi Morgan is to be applauded for creating a tightly meshed cat's cradle of strands and themes, skilfully held in place by director Jessica Hobbs.
May 10, 2018
The all-female Defoe family had coped for 30 years until the sudden return of father Oscar dropped a grenade into the clan's dynamics.
May 02, 2018
The longer I watched, the more compelling I found it. What a relief to be presented with a drama in which women are allowed to enjoy their work, and even to be wildly good at it, without their private lives also being offered up as a total failure.
May 02, 2018
Nicola Walker's [...] every movement, gesture and expression is a masterclass in playing someone who is on the verge of losing it, but knows everyone is relying on her to hold things together.
May 02, 2018
Plain hateful. [...] Everyone is one-dimensional, as well as self-serving and awful.
May 09, 2018
It's all sleekly done, with a snappy script by Abi Morgan, but most of the characters are just awful in that peculiarly English middle-class kind of way.
