Undercover Marcella

The Sunday night drama slot on BBC is currently filled by ‘Undercover’ (trying manfully to maintain the standard set by ‘War & Peace’ and The Night Manager’) which now is followed twenty four hours later on ITV by the Anna Friel fronted ‘Marcella’; each is a complex modern day thriller (although Undercover does flash back twenty years, unhelpfully to a time when the protagonists fail to look or dress twenty years younger) that on its own would take concentration to keep track of, but in tandem, both set mainly in London with a bewildering array of minor characters (who may turn out to be not so minor and would fit comfortably in either show), both with a key witness bumped off this week, and with both heroines having dodgy partners the two of them are starting to merge in my mind – both leading ladies even throw wobblers at times of stress, and I could follow suit soon.