Insomnia
Paramount +
The good news about Insomnia, Paramount’s six-part adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s novel, is that Vicky McClure is better in it than she was in Trigger Point. Actually, it is the most compelling performance I have seen of hers. I include Line of Duty in that.
The bad news is that it is spoilt by histrionic background music and far too much of TV drama’s boring suck-dummy: flashbacks to childhood. Is it just me who hates this? I do appreciate that flashbacks are pretty crucial to telling this story of two sisters who were put into care as children when their mother had a psychotic and violent breakdown, but they are overused. We are shown these same eerie sequences over and