{"id":87615,"date":"2025-10-20T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/87615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:06:10","slug":"nicola-walker-and-martin-clunes-throwback-mystery-drama-with-divisive-ending-is-coming-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/87615\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Walker and Martin Clunes&#8217; throwback mystery drama with divisive ending is coming to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">A Mother&#8217;s Son, the two-part 2012 ITV drama starring Nicola Walker, Martin Clunes, Paul McGann and Hermione Norris that has quite the divisive ending, is making its way to Netflix soon.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Set in a coastal town, the show begins when a local schoolgirl goes missing and is later found murdered. Her mother, played by Norris, has to battle with not only her grief but also her suspicions that her son might be hiding something.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Both episodes of A Mother&#8217;s Son will be coming to Netflix on Sunday 2 November.If you don&#8217;t want to wait that long, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a68029545\/mothers-son-nicola-walker-martin-clunes-uk-streaming-itvx\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a68029545\/mothers-son-nicola-walker-martin-clunes-uk-streaming-itvx\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"the show is available on ITVX now\" data-node-id=\"6.5\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the show is available on ITVX now<\/a>. It&#8217;s free with ads at the base tier, or you can watch without ads at the \u00a35.99 a month Premium tier.<\/p>\n<p>What to Read Next<img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"martin clunes in a mother's son on itv\" title=\"Martin Clunes, A Mother's Son\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/martin-clunes-a-mothers-son-1587504140.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Des Willie\/\/ITV<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tech\/best-tech-deals\/g35899960\/best-streaming-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tech\/best-tech-deals\/g35899960\/best-streaming-services\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Best streaming services UK 2025 \u2014 including Disney+, Netflix, iPlayer and Apple TV+\" data-node-id=\"11.0.1\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Best streaming services UK 2025 \u2014 including Disney+, Netflix, iPlayer and Apple TV+<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">We won&#8217;t go into spoilers here, but when the show was repeated on ITV in 2020, fans reacted on social media as it aired, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a32227498\/a-mothers-son-itv-ending-divides-viewers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a32227498\/a-mothers-son-itv-ending-divides-viewers\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"and they found the ending very divisive\" data-node-id=\"13.1\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">and they found the ending very divisive<\/a> (full spoilers in the linked article, by the way).<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Some felt like the resolution to the mystery was a bit weak, although others liked that it was less of a twist and allowed the focus to be more on the emotion of the situation rather than the twist itself.<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"a mother's son\" title=\"Nicola Walker, A Mother's son\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1688\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a-mothers-son-68d39a5721f1e.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ITV<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a69084749\/byker-grove-uk-streaming-itvx\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a69084749\/byker-grove-uk-streaming-itvx\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Nostalgic &#039;90s teen drama that &quot;made TV history&quot; to resurface in new UK streaming home\" data-node-id=\"18.0.1\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nostalgic &#8217;90s teen drama that &#8220;made TV history&#8221; to resurface in new UK streaming home<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"20\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Meanwhile, Martin Clunes&#8217; long-running ITV show Doc Martin is getting an American remake, Best Medicine, which will similarly follow a big city doctor who moves to a small coastal town to start a new life.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"22\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/ustv\/a69019361\/martin-clunes-joins-doc-martin-remake\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/ustv\/a69019361\/martin-clunes-joins-doc-martin-remake\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"And Clunes has actually signed up for a role the remake\" data-node-id=\"22.0\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">And Clunes has actually signed up for a role the remake<\/a>, although he won&#8217;t be playing Doc Martin or his American counterpart. Instead, he&#8217;ll be playing Dr Robert Best, the father of main character Dr Martin Best.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"24\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">A Mother&#8217;s Son is available on ITVX now, and comes to Netflix on 2 November.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"27\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">The new edition of Living Legends is here! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearstmagazines.co.uk\/special-editions-subscriptions-lvgwitchesariana\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.hearstmagazines.co.uk\/special-editions-subscriptions-lvgwitchesariana\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Buy Ariana &amp; Witches in newsagents or online\" data-node-id=\"27.3\" class=\"body-link css-1lh7k7j emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Ariana &amp; Witches in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761001570_28_6bf117e6-90c2-44bc-a2bb-92355b4636ba_1550228669.file\" alt=\"Headshot of Joe Anderton\" title=\"Headshot of Joe Anderton\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-o0wq4v ev8dhu53\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he&#8217;s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I&#8217;m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Son, the two-part 2012 ITV drama starring Nicola Walker, Martin Clunes, Paul McGann and Hermione Norris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[635,59915,637,146,85,46,636,59914,411],"class_list":["post-87615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-19e243b6-9edf-4c2d-bfe9-8435c76fe991","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-walker-and-clunes-mystery-drama-coming-to-netflix","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}