Edward Scarr

The BBC licence fee is £159 per annum. Much like car insurance, money is taken from you to protect you from prosecution by law. Which is how extortion works except you’re unlikely to be kneecapped if you don’t pay. The period drama North Water (BBC iPlayer) takes some of that pain away.Colin Farrell playing a psychopath roaming the Arctic Circle, Jack O’Connell utterly dependent on the drugs he’s supposed to divvy up to his shipmates. And an actor called Sam Spruell, whose character is in a constant bad mood, is particularly noteworthy. You throw all these people together and it will be carnage. Recommended but a word of warning. The only women who feature in this are objectified prostitutes. But it is only a story.