The Sixth Commandment (2023)

Crime, Drama 57m

66^%

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7.7/10

Overview

A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar by his 28-year-old student and young churchwarden Ben Field in October 2015.

Sarah Phelps

Creator

Top Billed Cast

Timothy Spall

Peter Farquhar

Anne Reid

Ann Moore-Martin

Éanna Hardwicke

Ben Field

Annabel Scholey

Ann-Marie Blake

Anna Crilly

Natalie Golding

Jonathan Aris

DCI Mark Glover

Peter Sullivan

David Jeremy

Ben Bailey Smith

Simon Blake

Sheila Hancock

Elizabeth Zettl

Adrian Rawlins

Ian Farquhar

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written on July 30, 2023

I have pretty much stopped watching these British dramas based on real murder cases because, even though they are all separate cases, these investigations seem to often cover the same story arc. So they have little room for imaginative storytelling or structure.

I decided to watch this show, however, because I really like Timothy Spall and Anne Reid, him all the way from his Mike Leigh films an...

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