Trust Me (TVNZ On Demand)
Reviewed by Calum Henderson
It's good to have a plan in case life blows up in your face one day. My go-to has always been faking my own death in an elaborate insurance scam like I once saw on an episode of Bungay On Crime, where a man "fell overboard" from a cruise ship wearing full scuba gear and walked along the ocean floor all the way back to his car. But I'm always open to exploring other options.
Trust Me, a new-to-TVNZ On Demand mini-series from the BBC, has put the idea of identity theft on my radar. The identity thief here is embattled nurse Cath Hardacre (Jodie Whittaker, the current Doctor Who, here playing a literal "doctor who?" – you'll see), who's stuffed her career by going to the papers and blowing the whistle on her employer for patient neglect.
The hospital board is giving her grief about the whistleblowing, her ex-husband (Blake Harrison, Neil from The Inbetweeners, who is apparently old enough to play an ex-husband now) is giving her grief about child custody arrangements... Something's got to give.
Luckily her best mate, ED doctor Ally (Andrea Lowe), is moving to New Zealand to be with the handsome Kiwi sheep farmer she's improbably managed to meet in Sheffield. This seems like terribly hack writing but we'll forgive it because it's flattering just to be mentioned in an international TV show.