The Outcast (BBC1, Sunday) was quite simply an extraordinary thing. Scripted by novelist Sadie Jones, who won the Costa first novel award for the book in 2008, this was the fantastically executed story of an outsider who has done nothing wrong. It’s pleasing to note this project has come full circle: Jones originally wrote it as a screenplay and then turned it into a novel. Now it’s a two-part TV drama. In the first episode, the anti-hero Lewis (Finn Elliot as a child and George MacKay as an adult) is forced to grow up quickly when his mother dies in a terrible accident.
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