The Sixth Commandment (TV Series 2023-2023)

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The Sixth Commandment (2023)

Crime, Drama

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A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar by his 28-year-old student and young churchwarden Ben Field in October 2015.

Sarah Phelps

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Timothy Spall

Peter Farquhar

4 Episodes
Anne Reid

Ann Moore-Martin

4 Episodes
Éanna Hardwicke

Ben Field

4 Episodes
Annabel Scholey

Ann-Marie Blake

4 Episodes
Anna Crilly

Natalie Golding

4 Episodes
Jonathan Aris

DCI Mark Glover

4 Episodes
Peter Sullivan

David Jeremy

4 Episodes
Ben Bailey Smith

Simon Blake

4 Episodes
Sheila Hancock

Elizabeth Zettl

4 Episodes
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Season 1

2023 • 4 Episodes

Season 1 of The Sixth Commandment premiered on July 17, 2023.

Episode 4

(1x4, July 25, 2023)

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A review by Peter McGinn

80%

Written by Peter McGinn on July 30, 2023

I have pretty much stopped watching these British dramas based on real murder cases because, even though they are all separate cases, these investigations seem to often cover the same story arc. So they have little room for imaginative storytelling or structure.

I decided to watch this show, however, because I really like Timothy Spall and Anne Reid, him all the way from his Mike Leigh films and her from her Coronation Street role decades ago. They also seem to only pick good productions to appear in. They were both excellent in this miniseries, Spall perhaps award-worthy in fact. Their and... read the rest.

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