TV review: American Rust might be the best thing on television this week

Flashbacks always look like an after-thought — as if someone says ‘what happened there?’ in a focus group, and now we all have to go back in time

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$22,000. That opens the bidding for a house in a rural Pennsylvania town during the first episode of American Rust (Sky Atlantic and Now TV).

Some Irish people saw nothing else after that, because they were on their way to rural Pennsylvania. $22,000 — sure that’s a year’s rent.