Drugs, sex, scorpions, breakdowns \u2026 a summer trip in Greece goes diabolically wrong in the BBC\u2019s immaculate new show that will give you a well-earned break from bad TV<\/p>\n
Hell is other people. But a fortnight\u2019s summer holiday in a Greek island villa with three pals you have known since university, the young second wife of one of them, your depressive husband and the mulish French nanny the second wife has hired to look after her foul child, is surely the innermost circle of it.<\/p>\n
Such is the diabolical situation in which Zoe (Jessica Raine) finds herself in Two Weeks in August, an utterly convincing and wholly compelling \u2013 in an \u201cif somebody doesn\u2019t push at least three-quarters of these credibly appalling individuals into the sea soon then I will clamber through the screen and do it myself\u201d kind of way, which is the best kind of way \u2013 blackly comic drama exquisitely written by Catherine Shepherd, immaculately directed by Tom George and Matthew Moore and perfectly played by the whole cast.<\/p>\n
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