The Sister (2020) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Shown 26th October 2020
Nathan (Russell Tovey -
Being Human (UK)
) is alone and apparently borderline suicidal
when he gets an unexpected and unwelcome visit
from his former friend creepy Bob (Bertie Carvel -
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
). The two of them share a sinister secret.
Nathan's wife, Holly (
Amrita Acharia
), returns from a TV interview which had her giving a speech
about her long-lost sister Elise.
Yes, the sinister secret may involve her disappearance.
Also, Bob seems to have discovered a supernatural element to the situation.
We get a series of flashbacks to different points in Nathan's past.
He used to work as tech support on a radio show,
which starred Bob as an expert on ghosts and the paranormal.
The Sister (2020) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Shown 27th October 2020
In a flashback, Nathan (Russell Tovey -
Being Human (UK)
) is interrogated by Police Detective Jackie (
Nina Toussaint-White
) as a potential witness to Elise's disappearance.
In another flashback, Nathan continued to pursue a relationship with Holly.
Jackie turns out to be Holly's best friend.
The Sister (2020) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Shown 28th October 2020
We get a flashback of Nathan (Russell Tovey -
Being Human (UK)
) on his wedding day.
His wife, Holly (
Amrita Acharia
), gives a speech about her long-lost sister Elise.
Nathan looks incredibly shifty and guilty,
as if he knows the fate of the missing sister.
In the main timeline,
Nathan and his creepy mate Bob (Bertie Carvel -
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
) dispose of some evidence.
Meanwhile, Holly begins to suspect her house is haunted.
Jackie (
Nina Toussaint-White
) investigates Bob.
It turns out he was fired from his job as a college lecturer
when he was outed as a paranormal investigator.
The Sister (2020) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Shown 29th October 2020
As always in Film Noir,
a crime has happened and the protagonist is implicated.
Jackie (
Nina Toussaint-White
) is closing in on creepy Bob (Bertie Carvel -
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
). Will Nathan (Russell Tovey -
Being Human (UK)
) turn himself in, or cover his tracks?
Nathan is not exactly a criminal mastermind.
His wife, Holly (
Amrita Acharia
), tends to overreact to things.
Worst of all, it seems that ghosts might be real.
So what will the twist ending be?
The Rising (2022)
-
Clara Rugaard
as Neve Kelly
- Matthew McNulty as Tom Rees
-
Emily Taaffe
as Maria Kelly
- Nicholas Gleaves as William Wyatt
- Solly McLeod as Joseph Wyatt
- Alex Lanipekun as Daniel Sands
- William Ash as Michael Wyatt
- Nenda Neururer as Alex Wyatt
-
Robyn Cara
as Katie Sands
-
Ann Ogbomo
as DS Christine Wyatt
-
Rebecca Root
as DC Diana Aird
- Cameron Howitt as Max Sands
-
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Shown 22nd April 2022
A tweenage girl, Neve Kelly, wakes up in a lake.
She walks home without dying of hypothermia,
and finds out none of her family can see her.
They have not seen her since last night,
so they get everyone out looking for her.
Can she somehow communicate the location of her body?
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Shown 22nd April 2022
So far the only one who can see Neve the ghost girl is her father,
a grief-stricken alcoholic.
She uses his laptop computer to investigate her murder,
downloading pictures from her social media.
This will probably make him look bad later,
especially since he has done a Sam Beckett (
Quantum Leap
) and let himself be seen talking to someone who nobody else can see.
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Shown 22nd April 2022
Neve befriends the Black girl who can see her.
It seems that, despite it being a small and remote town,
there have been several deaths and disappearances of young people.
Neve discovers what happened to her jacket,
which is one of the potential leads.
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Shown 22nd April 2022
Neve suspects there is a supernatural presence in the woods.
She and the Black girl go investigating.
They discover rock cairns that may be part of a pagan ritual.
The adults all try to cope with their grief in different ways.
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Shown 22nd April 2022
Neve knows who the killer is.
She also discovers who dosed her with GHB.
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Shown 22nd April 2022
The cops arrest the suspect for questioning.
They find bloodstains, but this might be from a different victim.
After all, there was a disappearance several years ago.
Are they investigating the wrong murder?
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 7]
Shown 22nd April 2022
Neve meets Victoria,
the woman who disappeared seven years ago.
They were killed by the same murderer,
but they are both blocking out who he is.
Neve must relive the events of her murder
in order to work out who he is.
The Rising (2022) [Season 1, Episode 8]
Shown 22nd April 2022
The killer's identity is known to the police,
and the second victim's body has been located.
However, the killer doubles down -
the plan is to kill again to destroy evidence.
Platform 7 (2023) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Shown 7th December 2023
Lisa Evans (
Jasmine Jobson
) is a ghost who haunts Platform 7 of her local train station.
she tries to talk Edward Warren (Phil Davis -
) out of killing himself, but nobody can see or hear her.
Instead he ends up joining her.
There are no other ghosts in the station, so they are stuck together.
By apparent coincidence, Edward's suicide was exactly a year after Lisa's.
Her parents and boyfriend turn up to leave flowers,
so she follows them home and investigates her death.
Meanwhile, the local transport cop unofficially re-opens her case.
It seems that the main suspect is the boyfriend's flatmate, Richard Shale (Reece Ritchie -
The Outpost
). He is a neurodiverse person,
which the other characters interpret as being creepy.
Platform 7 (2023) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Shown 7th December 2023
Lisa Evans (
Jasmine Jobson
) discovers why Edward Warren (Phil Davis -
) killed himself.
This is a generic males-abusing-females storyline,
which is the same as the main storyline.
Meanwhile, the local transport cop suspects the boyfriend's flatmate, Richard Shale (Reece Ritchie -
The Outpost
). His neurodiverse actions make him seem creepy.
But was he really stalking Lisa ... or her boyfriend?
Platform 7 (2023) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Shown 7th December 2023
This episode is an extended flashback,
charting the time from Lisa Evans (
Jasmine Jobson
) meeting her boyfriend to her demise.
It seems he was a control freak,
which makes him a bad choice as a life-partner
but not exactly the same as a serial killer.
The boyfriend's other sin, apart from being controlling,
is that he used to be flirtatious.
It does not matter that he is monogamous today,
but that he was sexually open-minded years ago.
Platform 7 (2023) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Shown 7th December 2023
Since it has been a year, the boyfriend has now moved on.
He has chosen a new girlfriend, a nurse.
Lisa Evans (
Jasmine Jobson
) is very offended at this.
The Transport cop gets interrogated by his boss
for conducting the illegal investigation.
However, when the boss discovers that the suspect is now dating a nurse ...
Well, the boss's daughter is a nurse so he takes it personally.
All in all, this makes the boyfriend look pretty sympathetic.
He is framed for most of the bad things by the ghost, after all.
