Doctor Foster is a BBC One drama television series that was first broadcast on 9 September 2015. The five-part series, written by Mike Bartlett, is about Dr. Gemma Foster, who suspects that her husband is having an affair. After she follows several lines of enquiry, far more in her life unravels, including a streak of violence below the surface. The storyline was inspired by the ancient myth of Medea, a wronged wife who poisons her husband's new bride and kills their children. The second series started on 5 September 2017 and concluded on 3 October 2017.
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Cast
Series one
- Suranne Jones as Gemma Foster, a 37-year-old GP in the town of Parminster, who begins to suspect her husband, Simon, is having an affair.
- Bertie Carvel as Simon Foster, a 40-year-old property developer and Gemma's husband.
- Clare-Hope Ashitey as Carly Williams, a patient of Gemma's, who helps support Gemma, due to her suspicions of Simon.
- Cheryl Campbell as Helen Foster (episodes 1-3)
- Jodie Comer as Kate Parks, a 23-year-old University Graduate who has been secretly having a two-year affair with Simon Foster.
- Navin Chowdhry as Anwar (episodes 2-3, 5)
- Victoria Hamilton as Anna Baker (episodes 1-3, 5)
- Tom Taylor as Tom Foster, Gemma and Simon's 11-year-old son.
- Martha Howe-Douglas as Becky Hughes
- Adam James as Neil Baker (episodes 1-3, 5)
- Thusitha Jayasundera as Ros Mahendra.
- Sara Stewart as Susie Parks (episodes 1-2, 4-5)
- Neil Stuke as Chris Parks (episodes 1-2, 4-5)
- Robert Pugh as Jack Reynolds (episodes 1-2, 4)
- Ricky Nixon as Daniel Spencer (episodes 1,4)
- Daniel Cerqueira as Gordon Ward, a Hypochondriac who regularly visits Gemma at the medical practice.
- Megan Roberts as Isobel, a friend of Tom's
Series two
- Suranne Jones as Gemma Foster
- Bertie Carvel as Simon Foster
- Tom Taylor as Tom Foster
- Jodie Comer as Kate Parks (episodes 1-4)
- Victoria Hamilton as Anna Baker (episodes 1-4)
- Adam James as Neil Baker (episodes 1-3)
- Prasanna Puwanarajah as James, Gemma's new love interest (episodes 1-3, 5)
- Sian Brooke as Siân Lambert, a new Doctor at Gemma's surgery with mysterious links to Simon (episodes 1-2, 4-5)
- Hope Lloyd as Isobel (episodes 1, 3)
- Frank Kauer as Max, Tom's best friend (episodes 1-3)
- Thusitha Jayasundera as Ros Mahendra (episodes 1-3, 5)
- Joanie Kent as Amelie Foster, Simon and Kate's daughter (episodes 1-4)
- Daniel Cerqueira as Gordon Ward (episodes 1-2)
- Helena Lymbery as Mrs Walters, Tom's headteacher (episodes 2-3)
- Martha Howe-Douglas as Becky Hughes (episode 1)
- Sara Stewart as Susie Parks (episodes 1, 4)
- Neil Stuke as Chris Parks (episodes 1, 4)
- Clare-Hope Ashitey as Carly Williams (episode 4)
- Philip Wright as Connor, Ros' fiancee and then husband (episodes 1, 3, 5)
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Episodes
Series 1 (2015)
Series 2 (2017)
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Production
The series was commissioned by Charlotte Moore and Ben Stephenson. The executive producers are Roanna Benn, Greg Brenman, Jude Liknaitzky, and Matthew Read. Filming took place in Green Lane, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, Copse Wood Way, Northwood, London, Enfield and the Market Square in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The surgery location shoot was at the Chess Medical Centre, in Chesham in Bucks, renamed Parminster Medical Centre for the show. The railway station featured in the show was Enfield Chase station. The scene that features Tom playing football was filmed at the Southgate Hockey Centre, Enfield.
It was announced at the end of Series 1 that the show would return for a second series, with both Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel. At the 21st National Television Awards Jones announced that the new series began filming in September 2016.
The second series started on 5 September 2017 and concluded on 3 October 2017. The BBC is yet to confirm whether the show will return for a third series although writer Mike Bartlett does not dismiss the possibility.
Reception
In general, the show has received acclaim. The opening episode received generally positive reviews from critics, with Lucy Mangan from The Guardian calling it a "gripping portrait of a marriage slowly being poisoned," although Mangan expressed fears of the show descending into "melodrama in the not too distant future ". In a review for The Telegraph, Michael Hogan gave the drama four stars out of five, describing it as "an edgy nail-biter", that was "sparkily written by Olivier Award-winner Mike Bartlett", despite a soundtrack that was "overbearing". Victoria Segal of the Sunday Times wrote of the fourth episode that it 'clattered unsteadily to its denouement ...this episode is as desperately uneven as the rest of the series, thrashing about between high melodrama and muted misery." Catherine Blythe of the Daily Telegraph bemoaned its "absurd plot" and the lack of "emotional logic" in a series of "melodramatic contortions that required a character who was supposed to be brainy to act like an utter fool."
- Accolades
Broadcast
Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on 17 November 2015 on BBC First, in New Zealand on January 17, 2016 on TV One, in France on 15 June 2016 on C8, in Poland on 3 August 2016 on Ale Kino+, and in Sweden on 15 August 2016 on SVT1. The series aired in the US on Lifetime in April 2016 as Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned and began streaming on Netflix in October 2016.
References
External links
- Official website
- Doctor Foster on IMDb
- Doctor Foster at TV.com
- Doctor Foster at epguides.com
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