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Unexpected holiday charges

Streaming: TVNZ OnDemand, full series

Sheridan Smith (, ) stars in this four-part thriller as the mother of a British family whose holiday of a lifetime in Turkey turns into a nightmare after her son, Noah, is arrested for a serious crime involving another teenage boy. Smith’s Kathy and husband Martin (Michael Jibson) find themselves getting nowhere when faced with the apparently corrupt local legal system. It’s written by Danny Brocklehurst, whose Netflix adaptations of and from the Harlan Coben novels suggest this might veer towards the pulpy. It seems some British viewers were vocally unhappy with the series’ unsatisfactory ending on ITV last month. Of

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