We Hunt Together
We Hunt Together | |
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Created by | Gaby Hull |
Written by | Gaby Hull |
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Composer | Jon Opstad |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
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Producer | Lisa Osborne |
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Production company | BBC Studios Drama Productions |
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Network | Alibi |
Release | 27 May 2020 9 June 2022 | –
We Hunt Together is a British crime drama television series created by Gaby Hull. The series stars Babou Ceesay, Eve Myles, Hermione Corfield and Dipo Ola. The first series began its run on 27 May 2020 on Alibi.[1][2] The second series was premiered on Alibi on 5 May 2022.[3] The first series was shown by the BBC from 26 June 2023.
Cast
Main
- Babou Ceesay as DI Jackson Mendy[1]
- Hermione Corfield as Frederica "Freddy" Lane[1]
- Eve Myles as DS Lola Franks[1]
- Dipo Ola as Babeni "Baba" Lenga[1]
- Colin Morgan as Liam Gates (season 2)[1]
Recurring
- Babirye Bukilwa as DC Dominique "Dom" Parkes[4][5]
- Vicki Pepperdine as DSI Susan Smart[4]
- Steffan Rhodri as Larry[4]
- Sharlene Whyte as Gill Mendy[6]
- Nico Mirallegro as Robert Miller (series 2)
- Angus Imrie as Henry Lane (series 2)
Guest
- Kris Marshall as Cian Fitzgerald (series 1)
- Tamzin Outhwaite as Shannon McBride (series 2)
- Michelle Bonnard as Professor Judy Hackwood (series 2)
- Ray Fearon as Chief Superintendent Lester Price (series 2)
- John McCrea as DC Ryan Parsons (series 2)
Episodes
All episodes of the series are written by Gaby Hull.
Series 1 (2020)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Original air date [7] |
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1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Carl Tibbetts | 27 May 2020 |
2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Carl Tibbetts | 28 May 2020 |
3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Carl Tibbetts | 3 June 2020 |
4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Carl Tibbetts | 4 June 2020 |
5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Jon Jones | 10 June 2020 |
6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Jon Jones | 11 June 2020 |
Series 2 (2022)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Original air date [8] | |
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7 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Jonathan Teplitzky | 5 May 2022 | |
A jogger gets brutally stabbed and murdered by the "Birdman", a man dressed in a pigeon mask. DI Lola and DS Jackson get assigned to the homicide case of the jogger. The victim is revealed to be James O'Neil. A day before, James met Frederica while they were speed dating, and eventually had sex. However, Frederica kept on thinking about Baba and ending up gagging James. James is being watched by someone outside and eventually leads up to his murder. Lola and Jackson interview James' wife and Freddy but get nowhere. Meanwhile, Freddy sees a ring on a grave and also gets a written letter from someone, and also sees James' severed finger wrapped in bandages on which she puts the ring on. | |||||
8 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Jonathan Teplitzky | 12 May 2022 | |
DI Lola and DS Jackson enquire with suspects, including Robert Miller, Robert's Miller's employer and his friend. His friend reveals that he was obsessed with Frederica and he said that he would have sex with her till death. Shannon, a YouTube presenter who constantly talks negatively about Freddy, meets and degrades Freddy and leaves. The Birdman visits Shannon after she goes for a swim in her pool. Lola gets a call from Jackson and watches Shannon's show, to reveal that a video which reveals that she has been tied and forced to read a script and crying, then her body gets found after she drowned. Freddy realises that the killer is after Freddy's enemies. Freddy's friend reveals to Lola that Shannon and Freddy met. Eventually, the police find Robert's partial fingerprint on the chair that Shannon was tied to, and raid his house, but find his severed finger in a room on a bed, which says "Poor Robert, think again pigs". Freddy reads an encrypted message from a comment on Shannon's page, which says "The pervert Robert Miller won't bother you anymore, We should meet". | |||||
9 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Jonathan Teplitzky | 19 May 2022 | |
10 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Rebecca Rycroft | 26 May 2022 | |
11 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Rebecca Rycroft | 2 June 2022 | |
12 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Rebecca Rycroft | 9 June 2022 |
Release
The first series premiered in the United Kingdom on Alibi on 27 May 2020.[1][2] The second series debuted on Alibi on 5 May 2022.[3]
The series premiered in the United States on Showtime on 9 August 2020.[9] The second series debuted on Showtime on 3 July 2022.[10]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 11 critics' reviews of the first season are positive, with an average rating of 4.7/10.[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the first season a score of 59 out of 100, based on nine critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Hermione Corfield: one of everything". Virgin Media. 13 September 2020.
- ^ a b "'We Hunt Together' Star Hermione Corfield on Not Being the Damsel in Distress". Collider. 14 September 2020.
- ^ a b "We Hunt Together: Season 2 release date of Alibi thriller series, cast and where was it filmed?". NationalWorld. 4 May 2022.
- ^ a b c "We Hunt Together: Cast". Alibi. 27 May 2020.
- ^ "TBB Talks to... Actor, Poet, and Writer Babirye Bukilwa". The British Blacklist. 8 November 2020.
- ^ "We Hunt Together (2020)". Moriareviews.com. 16 March 2021.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 2". Radio Times. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ White, Peter (24 June 2020). "Showtime Pushes Back Abolitionist Miniseries 'The Good Lord Bird', Picks Up British Drama 'We Hunt Together' To Fill Slot". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ Priola, Victoria (3 July 2022). "'We Hunt Together' Season 2 premiere: How to watch and stream". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 1". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 1". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
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