MAD DOGS

UK / Sky One – Left Bank Pictures / 4×60 minute episodes / Broadcast Thursday 10 February – 3 March 2011

Writer: Cris Cole / Stunt Co-Ordinator: Gareth Milne / Costumes: Mary Jane Reyner / Music: Martin Phipps / Production Design: David Roger / Executive Producer: Elaine Pyke, Suzanne Mackie, Andy Harries / Producer: Spencer Campbell / Director: Adrian Shergold

“Nothing significant has ever been typed using thumbs“…

In four part thriller Mad Dogs a quartet of old friends (Woody, Quinn, Baxter and Rick) are invited to spend a few weeks with the fifth member of their old “gang” at his luxury villa in Spain. The group are now in their forties and their lives have all moved in different directions, none of them have made a huge success of their lives apart from Alvo who is seriously rich and living the high life in Mallorca.

The visit is supposed to be to celebrate Alvo’s early retirement  but it soon becomes clear that there are some sinister things going on, not least when a midget hitman wearing a Tony Blair mask blunders into the villa and shoots Alvo. Soon the boys are deciding to cover up the murder…

Filmed on location in Mallorca Mad Dogs is excellent, deliciously black with a fabulous cast and marking the working together of John Simm and Philip Glenister for the first time since the iconic Life on Mars. There is a nicely what on Earth is going on vibe as things start to spiral out of control and we learn what Alvo’s motives really are for bringing the boys over to the villa.

Sky are really proving their chops these days when it comes to drama. This is easily the equal of anything currently on free to air TV.

cast

JOHN SIMM as Baxter

MAX BEESLEY as Woody

MARC WARREN as Rick

PHILIP GLENISTER as Quinn

BEN CHAPLIN as Alvo

TIM WOODWARD as Dominic

ELOISE JOSEPH as Lottie

TOMAS POZZI as Tony

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