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TV tonight: a body is found in a clever surrealist period drama

the Guardian·the Guardian·about 1 month ago
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This Is Not a Murder Mystery 8pm, U&Drama A period crime drama set in West Sussex, 1936: a stately home is playing host to the hottest artists of the day, including Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and René Magritte. After a party fuelled by cocaine, opium and professional jealousy, a body is found, staged like Magritte’s The Lovers – prompting the arrival of Stephen Tompkinson as acerbic DCI John Thistlethwaite. The clever visual references and arch dialogue make it hard not to love. Jack Seale A Taste for Murder 9pm, ITV1 New drama in which delicious Italian cuisine and brutal murder come together. When grieving widower DCI Joe Mottram (Warren Brown) and his daughter Angelica (Beau Gadsdon) seek solace in sunny Capri, Joe is soon asked by his mother-in-law (Phyllis Logan) to clear a relative’s name. Cue soft-focus closeups of risotto, cookery tips and corpses.…

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