[Crimson Dynamo]

6 eps

• Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd star in show centred on a rape allegation
• The drama explores gender politics set against the modern sexual landscape
• Joanna says she nearly turned down the role after her Downton Abbey rape story

At first they seem like a dream couple, perhaps even made for each other. Teacher Laura has broken up with her childhood sweetheart and seems happy at the prospect of a new life without him.

Surgeon Andrew is a widower, a wearer of scrubs, a dutiful single dad. In their small town on the Kentish coast, she teaches his son at school, he works with her sister at the hospital.

There has always been a tremor of mutual attraction between them, for each is very far from being filed under undateable or dismissed as a loser.

She is blonde, pretty and intelligent, dedicated to her job. He is tall, dark and handsome, equally devoted to his job. So dinner sometime? Why not? Just another couple of alphas taking a bet on each other.

Soon there is red wine, romance and a walk home from the restaurant in the crisp night air. Yet back at her place afterwards, something terrible happens, something that will change their lives and those of their families forever – an accusation of date rape. Andrew says they had consensual sex, Laura says he raped her – but who is telling the truth?

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