Daisy May Cooper is tremendous in the BBC’s merciless new black comedy, while a trippy LA road-rage saga dazzles. Plus, secrets, lies and Lily Cole in Margate, and the compelling rise and fall of a tennis giant
Rain Dogs BBC One | iPlayer
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Leave it to dialogue by Cash Carraway, creator and writer of BBC One’s eight-part, soot-black dramedy Rain Dogs, to best describe her lead character: deadpan, defiant single mother Costello, played with lairy elan by Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?). As stated by Adrian Edmondson’s Lenny, a wheezing, ruined Lucian Freud-esque artist: “The problem is, you don’t know your place. But that’s the best thing about you.”