Genre Crime drama Written by Shaun McKenna Composer(s) John Lunn | Created by Shaun McKenna Directed by Nicholas Laughland | |
Starring Robson Green
Jemma Redgrave
Georgia Moffett
Phil Davis
Tara Fitzgerald
Francesca Fowler | ||
Like Father, Like Son is a British television crime drama series first broadcast on ITV1 in January 2005. The two-part serial stars Robson Green and Jemma Redgrave as the step-father and mother of a young boy who is suspected of a murder of a fellow school pupil, after meeting with his father for the first time since his incarceration for a quadruple murder. The serial achieved good viewing figures, upward of 8m.
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The serial was released on DVD on 7 March 2005.
Critical reception
Richard Scheib of the New Zealand Horror and Fantasy Film Review said of the series;
"For a relatively novice screenwriter, Shaun McKenna does an excellent job. The script sets up an interesting divide as to whether the killer is Jemma Redgrave’s son Somerset Prew, who may have been seduced and corrupted by his serial killer father or whether it is Jemma’s fiancée, Robson Green. There is a nice sense of mirroring throughout the script – how Jemma Redgrave’s husband was a killer who secretly strangled women, and how her husband-to-be Robson Green has a secret about his wife being strangled; how both of the prospective suspects had an obsession with Morag; how Jemma suddenly realises that she has gone from one husband who was secretly a killer to discovering that her prospective husband might also secretly be a killer too. These various aspects weave together and apart, circling around differing suspicions with considerable cleverness. It is an extremely adept script. Shaun McKenna even writes a scene that quite takes one aback, which offers up an interpretation of the strangling of Desdemona in Shakespeare’s Othello in terms of sexual jealousy.