Follow a bit ‘distantly lovable remains by Alice Sebold the atmosphere you breathe in The Rising – Hunt for my killerthe new Sky Original series conceived by Julian Stevens, former producer of The Fall and of The Missing, aired on Sky and streaming on NOW from Friday 15 July. The protagonist is the young Neve Kelly (Clara Rugaard): a somewhat anomalous protagonist, since she is dead. In fact, at the beginning of the series we find her floating in a lake until she opens her eyes again, she wakes up and manages to get to shore to discover that no one can perceive her presence except the dogs – a trick that was already been put into practice in Ghost – because in that lake she died there, even if she remembers neither how nor when. The family is destroyed, as are the friends and the community in which she grew up, yet Snow knows she is there, wedged in a sort of space-time fold of who knows what universe suspended between life and death, for a reason. : track down her killer and get justice.
To do this he will use the new ones supernatural abilities who discovers she has as a non-alive to investigate where the police can’t go, uncovering buried secrets that will force her to reexamine everything about her life and, above all, the people she cared about. In fact, there are many figures who have always revolved around it and who do not tell the viewer right from the first episode, starting with her boyfriend Joseph (Solly McLeod) and, above all, her enigmatic cousin Alex (Nenda Neururer), not to mention her family who, especially at first, struggles to hide that they are united through a very thin thread that could break at any moment, throwing everything into chaos.
However, it won’t take Snow long to realize that her father Tom (Matthew McNulty), who has long since left his family due to his severe drinking problems, he is the only one able to see and hear it, perhaps precisely because of the dullness of the senses caused by the gin that he slips into plastic bottles, pretending to be water. It is there, when Tom reveals that he perceives the presence of his daughter to his ex-wife Maria (Emily Taaffe) and his new partner Daniel (Alex Lanipekun) that something breaks, since at that point everyone seems suspended between the desire to suppress on the born that fantasy and a pinch of anguish at the fact that sooner or later something could come out that they would like to keep to themselves. Composed of eight episodes directed by Ed Lilly and written by Pete McTighe, Charlene James, Roanne Bardsley, Gemma Hurley and Laura Grace, The Rising – Hunt my killer is the perfect title to brighten up the summer, capable of conquering everyone thanks to a skilful mix between love and thriller, not to mention the numerous twists that will lead the viewer – as well as the protagonist – to become aware of a truth that we never expected to find out.
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