A Mother’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.
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.
Both episodes of A Mother’s Son will be coming to Netflix on Sunday 2 November.If you don’t want to wait that long, the show is available on ITVX now. It’s free with ads at the base tier, or you can watch without ads at the £5.99 a month Premium tier.
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We won’t go into spoilers here, but when the show was repeated on ITV in 2020, fans reacted on social media as it aired, and they found the ending very divisive (full spoilers in the linked article, by the way).
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.
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Meanwhile, Martin Clunes’ 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.
And Clunes has actually signed up for a role the remake, although he won’t be playing Doc Martin or his American counterpart. Instead, he’ll be playing Dr Robert Best, the father of main character Dr Martin Best.
A Mother’s Son is available on ITVX now, and comes to Netflix on 2 November.
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