Nigel Farage isn’t the only familiar British face to decamp Down Under. Jodie Whittaker, until recently the star of Doctor Who, also ventures to the other side of the world to star in Australian mystery One Night (Paramount+).
Sadly it’s so lacklustre that Whittaker might wish that she’d opted to eat kangaroo genitalia with Ant and Dec instead. Since hanging up her sonic screwdriver last year, Whittaker has spread her wings in eclectic roles. She just played an imprisoned single mother in gut-punch BBC drama Time. Now she loses her native Yorkshire tones to adopt an Australian accent. I’m no expert in Antipodean linguistics, but she does a decent job.
Set on the stunning New South Wales coast, One Night follows three women – Tess (Whittaker), Simone (Nicole da Silva) and Hat (Yael Stone) – who remain haunted by a harrowing event during their teens. Twenty years later, Simone writes a thinly disguised novel about that fateful night. It reopens wounds in cathartic ways.
