Deadwater Fell review, Culture Whisper
David Tennant loves going dark in his roles, to the point even his heroic characters are crawling with hidden spiders. Still, audiences expect him to be a good man; there’s a contradictory air about him: outwardly charming, inwardly tortured.
In the new Channel 4 mystery drama Deadwater Fell, Tennant stars as the morally ambiguous Dr. Tom Kendrick. A local GP, Kendrick endures a murderous tragedy in a small town in Scotland, and suspicions gradually level against him.
But despite a curious premise, Tennant is one of the few draws to the drama.
