Run review, Culture Whisper
Who hasn’t been tempted to leave their lives behind? To forsake all the responsibilities paved by good and poor decisions, to forget the pressures, to ease the suffering? The idea is 15 years in the making for the former uni couple Ruby (Merritt Wever) and Billy (Domhnall Gleeson) in Vicky Jones’ debut series Run.
The couple made an arrangement at 19 years old: if, in the future, they become dissatisfied, one will text ‘RUN’ to the other. If the other responds, they’ll escape their lives – wherever they may be – and board a train from New York’s Grand Central Station.
At first, there’s a comfortable certainty about how this series will play out. Run is exec-produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with whom Jones has frequently collaborated: writing an episode of Killing Eve and consulting on Fleabag. The first few episodes of Run lean toward the latter.
