Last time, ITV’s thriller Prey featured John Simm on the run from Rosie Cavaliero. Now it’s his old Life on Mars pal Philip Glenister who DS Susan Reinhardt has in her sights. What are the odds?
They’re joined by a cast that includes MyAnna Buring (Banished, Ripper Street), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Utopia, Misfits), Ralph Ineson (Game of Thrones, The Office) and Sammy Winward (Emmerdale). Written by Prey creator Chris Lunt, the new three-part story will see Cavaliero reprise her role as Reinhardt, now reporting in to DCI Mike Ward (Ralph Ineson). Glenister plays prison officer David Murdoch whose life becomes complicated when “events spiral out of control” on a routine visit to a Manchester hospital.
Here’s a quick reminder of what our critic Sam Wollaston thought last time:
“Prey might not have the layered complexity of Line of Duty … Nor does it ring quite as true as an examination of procedure at a difficult, all-consuming workplace. I don’t think it will keep me awake at night worrying about it so much – who’s rotten, who’s not and who’s somewhere in between? This … is more straightforward, two-and-a-half dimensional as opposed to (at least) three. Clearer cut, too, with good ’uns and bad ’uns and less of the murkier stuff in between. A more traditional cop (albeit turned fugitive) thriller – possibly a little more ITV.
That’s not to say Prey isn’t fabulous. It is. Any lack of depth is made up for in pace; it’s a gripping, breathless, buttock-clenching chase, foot to the floor, blues and twos going. I’m there, to the end.”
