Season One I
This show is about a popular tv journalist whose world is turned upside down by one event that happened in her past.
The first episode starts in the past with a young couple having a great time on their train ride to Italy. When they arrive, the couple begins their tour of the city, and the young man has a camera and is taking pictures of sites.
Present day shows Catherine at the Royal Television Society awards show where she wins best television journalist. She is happy she won and in her speech thanks everyone. Her husband, Robert wants to celebrate when they get home, and Catherine reluctantly has a glass of wine with him. Looking through the mail, she receives a novel. Later that night in bed, she begins to read it. After reading a few chapters, she all of a suddenly becomes ill and goes into the bathroom to throw up. What made her upset?
Stephen is a teacher and seems tired of his job. He looks retirement age but continues to work. His wife died nine years ago and he is still mourning the loss of her. He gets home from work and has a charity company finally come to pick up some of her things. He then decides to go into the bedroom where his wife slept during her illness. He discovers his wife’s purse and looks inside to find phones Jonathan had taken of a woman in the nude. There is a locked drawer at the desk, so he gets it open and finds a manuscript. He reads the entire manuscript and seems amazed at what he read. He takes it to a friend to read who then tells Stephen he need to publish it. Stephen then goes through the process of self- publishing it.
There are flashbacks throughout the episode that turn out to be about Stephen’s son Jonathan. Jonathan has taken a gap year and traveled to Europe with his girlfriend. They explore all the sites together until she must leave to go back home. After leaving Florence, Jonathan writes to his mom that he is going to the beach area. At the beach one day he sees a beautiful woman with her son. Jonathan takes lots of pictures of her. At first the woman does not notice but later does and smiles at him.
This episode is slow but kept my interest. The flashbacks were at first confusing but eventually made sense. Now, I’m curious as to what will happen with the mysterious woman.
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