Temple

Last week a quite wonderful, if possessed of laughably dubious ethics drama-thriller got going deep beneath the churning streets of St Mary le Strand. The first 10 minutes of Temple, set beneath the eponymous tube station that most Londoners forget, are almost a frame-for-frame simulacrum of the original Norwegian TV drama Valkyrien, but because of Sky’s budget, and the strength of Daniel Mays and Mark Strong (also invested as executive producer), this somehow feels more urgent, more substantial. Certainly more gory: you don’t want to be gorging on oysters when Strong, in just the first episode, has to excise a bank robber’s otter-slippy spleen.Temple Season 1-2 Download.

It’s loopy enough, admittedly, as an entire premise – brilliant surgeon hides his terminally ill wife deep in the rusty dripping bowels of a station, to secretly research a cure – but if you can just, pretty please, suspend your disbelief for long enough to get your talons into it, it’s hugely rewarding. There’s the search for the longed-for cure, yes, but that’s almost a sideshow: the dramas will mostly revolve around the secrecy, the squirrelly exits, fraught issues of trust and just how far Dr Milton can fund his labour of love by providing private clinical rescue to those who have a greater need than most for anonymity.

Talking of moreishly watchable, I found it quite impossible to stop myself racing through all 10 episodes of State of the Union. I’m not generally a fan of binge-watching – it makes this job hard, to write for both the seen-it-all yadda-yadda and those who shriek “spoiler offence” when you let slip the merest hint of the murderer’s identity – but these episodes are 10-minute chunks and can be indulged in one glut without acid reflux; it’s almost rude not to.Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd chew over their failing marriage in State of the Union.