You Don’t Know Me
BBC1
★★★★☆
The 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
