My Review- Playing Nice
Streaming on SBS on Demand
My Rating - 7.5/10
This interesting and emotionally charged four part one off mini series poses a question no parent would ever hopefully be faced with .
How would you react if you were called to a meeting by the Chief of a Hospital to tell you how sorry they were that the young child you had nurtured from birth was not actually yours ?
Due to a mix up of name tags accidental or otherwise each baby had in fact been handed over to the wrong parents which later was confirmed by DNA testing.
Now two couples face the horrifying dilemma of either keeping the sons they have raised and loved from birth or reclaiming their biological child.
James Norton and Niamh Algar star as a couple Pete Riley and Maddie Wilson the parents of Theo their young son.
The other couple Miles and Lucy Lambert are played by James McCardle and Jessica Brown Findlay are parents to David who has health some issues .
Miles when told that Theo the more active outgoing child is actually his son sets in place a devious set of legal challenges and investigations that threaten Pete and Maddies custody of their son .
Playing Nice is an excellent title for this series because The Lambert's appear to be playing nice in the beginning however as the excellent screenplay by Grace Ofori-Attah based on a global best seller by J. P. Delaney progresses the true colours of Miles Lambert are revealed.
I found this series very well produced , directed and I enjoyed the performances from all the cast ,especially James Norton.