Southcliffe (2013)

Directed by

Sean Durkin

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist returns to his hometown after a local man carries out a series of shootings. The story unfolds through different characters in the town, showing the events leading up to the tragedy and its aftermath.

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What happens

Southcliffe is a British drama series that aired on Channel 4. Set in a fictional town on the North Kent Marshes, it employs a nonlinear narrative structure to tell the story of a series of shootings by a local man portrayed by Sean Harris, the cause of the shootings and the effects on the town and residents. The series explores tragedy, grief, responsibility and redemption as seen through the eyes of a journalist returning to the small town of his childhood to cover the story. The series was filmed in Faversham in North Kent and was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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