Mike Bartlett’s richly enjoyable adultery drama, Doctor Foster, in which a small town GP Gemma (played by Suranne Jones), begins to suspect that her husband Simon (Bertie Carvell) is playing away, could well be an exception if the blistering first episode of the second series is anything to go by.
“Gemma takes her clothes off at some point and I’d just had a baby. So the planking helped.”
“I think she’s an everywoman”, says Jones of her character in Doctor Foster, although she could be describing her own screen appeal.
But damage and hurt there will be in the new series of Doctor Foster, by the bucketload.