Based on the multi-million selling book series written by Beverly Lewis and written for the stage by Emmy-nominated screenwriter Martha Bolton, The Confession tells the story of an Amish family in crisis when their daughter, Katie Lapp, discovers she was adopted by a English woman. Meanwhile, the woman, Laura Mayfield, heiress to a large fortune and on her deathbed, searches for her lost daughter to bequeath her inheritance to him. Among her is NAME, her gold-digger husband, who plans to claim the fortune for himself with the help of a hired impostor who pretends to be her long-lost daughter. While the story is dramatic, writer Martha Bolton is peppered with humor, primarily from award-winning comedian Chonda Pierce as the maid and internationally renowned British comedian Colin Hearn as the English butler. The music is powerful under the direction of multiple Grammy Award nominee Dan Posthuma and composer Wally Nason. And the screen is filled with spectacular images with twenty actors and dancers and one of the largest LED screens in the country.
ITV's new venture, the six-part drama A Confession, is an unexpected addition to this new order. It is, after all, a dramatization of a true story that would work perfectly as a tale of manly heroism: how Superintendent Steve Fulcher decided to violate police protocol to catch a serial killer, sacrificing his own career and reputation in doing so. of the.
Stars: John Schneider, Caitlin Borek, Chonda Pierce
Instead, Jeff Pope has written something far darker and more satisfying (and one that honors the experiences of those who lived through it better than a lesser piece, however well-intentioned, would have). A Confession foregrounds and develops the missing and their families, while the painstaking police work of Fulcher and his team gradually assembles the horror that will soon consume them all.
At the end of the initial episode, we don't know if there has been a murder at all. But we know all about the increase in fear and dread in a family when a loved one goes missing. We see the gradual escalation of efforts to find 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan from the moment her mother receives the call from her son telling her that Sian's partner Kevin is worried she didn't come home last night. . through the round of friends, the call of hospitals, the official report of a missing person to the police and the eventual search by CCTV and Savernake Forest. And we see the gradual and ruthless closure of the avenues of possibility and hope. No news from friends. No news from the hospital. A pair of torn panties in the woods and her figure walking past a car on CCTV and into oblivion.
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