TV review: The Salisbury Poisonings focuses on the stuff of nightmares
The drama centres on Wiltshire's director of public health Tracy Daszkiewicz, played by Anne-Marie Duff
I’m not sure how (Netflix) managed to stay under the radar. It’s been out for a few months now and there has been very little fuss about it. Maybe a three-parter can’t cut it in pandemic times, when we need a minimum of 10 episodes to keep us going through the winter.
But is a cracker. It’s a dramatisation of the 2018 poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury England. The poison was a spooky nerve agent known as novichok, which someone smeared on the front door of his house. Given Sergei had spied on his native Russia for British intelligence, it’s assumed that this was Vladimir Putin and co getting their revenge. It certainly doesn’t look like a neighbourly fall-out over a hedge.
