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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsT
he last time Samuel
Adewunmi appeared on TV
was in that ten-bob potboiler
Angela Black (eye-roll) so
it was nice to see him in
something more befitting his talents.
Interesting that the BBC chose to
follow one Sunday night courtroom
drama with another.
While Showtrial was based on
a privileged posho hedonist druggie at
Bristol University, You Don’t Know
Me centred on the death of a drug
dealer from a council estate in south
London. It was also almost an entirely
black cast, and it’s not often you
can say that.Adapted by Tom Edge (who wrote
Vigil — but we won’t hold that against
him) from the novel by the criminal
barrister Imran Mahmood, it
immediately tipped the usual drama
“journey” on its head. Normally the
trial comes at the end of the story, but
here it came at the beginning, so we
learnt everything backwards.
It was a nice dramatic trick to have
car salesman Hero (Adewunmi), who
was charged with the murder of a drug
dealer (and the evidence looked pretty
damning), sacking his barrister and
presenting his own defence as a way
of telling the story, almost in the
manner of a soliloquy.
On paper this sounds naff and
cheesy, but in Edge’s hands it wasn’t.
OK, maybe it was a little bit at the
end, when Hero kept asking himself
rhetorically, “Do you love her?” in
front of the jury, which I’m pretty
sure would never happen in a
buttoned-up British court. But as
a dramatic device, switching
between Hero on his feet in court and
the events of the recent past as he
tried to find his missing girlfriend,
Kyra (Sophie Wilde), it was fresh and
engaging with — glory be! —
believable dialogue.
Adewunmi had a lot of solo heavy
lifting to do here, and he did so
effortlessly. Wilde was skilfully cast
as a gentle bookworm, apparently
forced into prostitution. (I must sayI’d never get in touch with a man who
put up posters asking people to call
him if they saw his missing girlfriend.
He could easily be Mr Coercive-
controlling wife-beater looking for
the girl who got away.)
Indeed, when he chatted her up on
the bus, interrupting her while she was
trying to read Great Expectations or
whatever it was, and deliberately
getting off at her stop, he did border
on the stalkerish.
A special mention must go to
Roger Jean Nsengiyumva for playing
swaggering drug dealer Jamil (the
murder victim) in his long white
puffer coat as a convincing, complex
horror; a man who could buy an
Aston Martin for £85,000 cash but
whose price for getting Hero a gun
was to make him do his university
homework because “I’m on track
to get a 2:1”.
What I liked about this drama was
that it was credible (and you can’t
say that often either). The evidence
against Hero, including the fact that
he had Jamil’s blood beneath his
fingernails, gunpowder residue
on his hands, and there was CCTV
and mobile phone data placing
him at the murder scene, was
pretty damning. But slowly and
plausibly this drama shows how
things aren’t always as they seem.
It’s definitely worth sticking with for
part two tonight.A fresh show with, glory be, believable dialogue
HELEN WILLIAMSCarol
Midgley
TV review
You Don’t Know Me
BBC1
{{{{(Sophie Wilde and Samuel Adewunmi star as Kyra and Hero