We Hunt Together
| We Hunt Together | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Gaby Hull |
| Written by | Gaby Hull |
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| Composer | Jon Opstad |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Lisa Osborne |
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| Production company | BBC Studios Drama Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Alibi |
| Release | 27 May 2020 – 9 June 2022 |
We Hunt Together is a British crime drama television series created by Gaby Hull. The series stars Babou Ceesay, Eve Myles, Hermione Corfield and Dipo Ola. The first series began its run on 27 May 2020 on Alibi.[1][2] The second series was premiered on Alibi on 5 May 2022.[3] The first series was shown by the BBC from 26 June 2023.
Cast[edit]
Main[edit]
- Babou Ceesay as DI Jackson Mendy[1]
- Hermione Corfield as Frederica "Freddy" Lane[1]
- Eve Myles as DS Lola Franks[1]
- Dipo Ola as Babeni "Baba" Lenga[1]
- Colin Morgan as Liam Gates (season 2)[1]
Recurring[edit]
- Babirye Bukilwa as DC Dominique "Dom" Parkes[4][5]
- Vicki Pepperdine as DSI Susan Smart[4]
- Steffan Rhodri as Larry[4]
- Sharlene Whyte as Gill Mendy[6]
- Nico Mirallegro as Robert Miller (series 2)
- Angus Imrie as Henry Lane (series 2)
Guest[edit]
- Kris Marshall as Cian Fitzgerald (series 1)
- Tamzin Outhwaite as Shannon McBride (series 2)
- Michelle Bonnard as Professor Judy Hackwood (series 2)
- Ray Fearon as Chief Superintendent Lester Price (series 2)
- John McCrea as DC Ryan Parsons (series 2)
Episodes[edit]
All episodes of the series are written by Gaby Hull.
Series 1 (2020)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Original air date [7] |
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| 1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Carl Tibbetts | 27 May 2020 |
| 2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Carl Tibbetts | 28 May 2020 |
| 3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Carl Tibbetts | 3 June 2020 |
| 4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Carl Tibbetts | 4 June 2020 |
| 5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Jon Jones | 10 June 2020 |
| 6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Jon Jones | 11 June 2020 |
Series 2 (2022)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Original air date [8] | |
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| 7 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Jonathan Teplitzky | 5 May 2022 | |
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A jogger dies after getting brutally stabbed and murdered by the "Birdman", a man dressed in a pigeon mask. DI Lola and DS Jackson get assigned to the homicide case of the jogger. The victim is revealed to be James O'Neil. A day before, James met Frederica while they were speed dating, and eventually had sex. However, Frederica kept on thinking about Baba and ending up compressing James's neck. James is being watched by someone outside and eventually leads up to his murder. Lola and Jackson interview James' wife and Freddy as part of the investigation but get nowhere. Meanwhile, Freddy sees a ring on a grave and also gets a written letter from someone, and also sees James' severed finger wrapped in bandages on which she puts the ring on. | |||||
| 8 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Jonathan Teplitzky | 12 May 2022 | |
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DI Lola and DS Jackson enquire with suspects, including Robert Miller, Robert's Miller's employer and his friend. His friend reveals that he was obsessed with Frederica and he said that he would have sex with her till death. Shannon, a YouTube presenter who constantly talks negatively about Freddy, meets and degrades Freddy and leaves. The Birdman visits Shannon after she goes for a swim in her pool. Lola gets a call from Jackson and watches Shannon's show, to reveal that a video which reveals that she has been tied and forced to read a script and crying, then her body gets found after she drowned. Freddy realises that the killer is after Freddy's enemies. Freddy's friend reveals to Lola that Shannon and Freddy met. Eventually, the police find Robert's partial fingerprint on the chair that Shannon was tied to, and raid his house, but find his severed finger in a room on a bed, which says "Poor Robert, think again pigs". Freddy reads an encrypted message from a comment on Shannon's page using clues from the letter, which says "Dear Honeybee, The pervert Robert Miller won't bother you anymore, We should meet". | |||||
| 9 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Jonathan Teplitzky | 19 May 2022 | |
| 10 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Rebecca Rycroft | 26 May 2022 | |
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The ambulance arrive and take Dom to the hospital. Jackson sees a suspicious person in a Birdman mask leave the premises. He tries to catch up with him but the person escapes on a motorbike. Another Birdman escapes after Lola goes after them. Freddy gets a private call to deliver the news that Sheila, Freddy's former carer, has suffered a stroke, and she gets an emotional flashback of when she was abused as a child. Liam finds the message, and Lola and Liam try to crack the password of the encrypted message. Freddy gets a random call at a telephone box, and sees a note to inform the killer of their next target. Freddy tells Sheila's name and then hangs up the call. Freddy then gets the message to a locker. Jackson gets informed that Dom has awakened. Jackson chases the bike for it to be registered to Chief Superintendent Price. Freddy visits the locker to see a note and a vial. Lola begins following Freddy and Liam, as her suspicions are aroused. Henry and Freddy drive together, while Henry reminisces about her dead sister, Frederica, and Freddy gets a flashback when she pushed Frederica into the lake. Jackson interview Chief Superintendent Lester Price and reveals that the bike was stolen, but he confirms that he was not present at the murder. Freddy tries to kill Sheila, but an imaginative Baba stops her. Jackson gets a harrowing call from Dom informing that the baby is not his. Lola discovers that Liam used her so that he can become financially stable. Henry and Freddy eventually have sex. Jackson gets arrested but later released and finds out his family left him. Also Freddy tells the killer to stop following her | |||||
| 11 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Rebecca Rycroft | 2 June 2022 | |
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The police and Lola get a search warrant to search Frederica's house, and she immediately goes to the bathroom. DS Jackson gets suspended after an incident with the police. She flushes the letter down the toilet, and swallows the severed finger. However, later doing police interrogation, the police ask Freddy about the Twitter post and Shannon's visit, and later vomits the finger in the sink. She decides to hide the finger in the inside pocket of her jacket. Freddy reveals that she received the letter from someone unknown. Lola and her supervisor believe that Freddy could be in danger. Freddy and Henry decide to go on a boat trip. Freddy finds it uncomfortable to reveal the truth about his sister's death. Henry gets a call on Freddy's phone to inform him that Sheila passed away after Freddy's visit. Liam apologises to Lola but Lola does not reciprocate. Lola finds out that Price paid for the locker. Lola visits Jackson for help but he acts cold-hearted. The police search his house, but the police discover that he has a second house in Gloucestershire, and eventually they find Price and his wife dead in a bath. They conclude that Lester was the Birdman, and committed suicide out of guilt. One night, Freddy imagines Henry' sister alive, and runs out of the boat, accidentally stabbing Henry. Freddy apologises and reveals the truth to Henry about his sister, then she brutally stabs him. She then drives back to her flat in his car. She then suddenly gets a call from Henry's phone, and the "Birdman" texts her. The Birdman takes off his mask, revealing Robert, who is alive. Robert then disposes of Henry's body. | |||||
| 12 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Rebecca Rycroft | 9 June 2022 | |
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Freddy drives through a forest and reminisces about his time at the psychiatric hospital. His tyre goes flat; just then a van passes him. The driver, Joseph, gets out and talks to him friendly. Joseph opens the boot and gets horrified to see Henry's dead. Freddy puts the Birdman mask and then murders him. Lola tells her supervisor that Price has an alibi. Jackson realises that Gil, his wife, was cheating on him. The killer sends a message to Freddy to meet him the hospital. She discovers Robert who pulls a drama to earn her trust. Jackson unofficially investigates the teddy bear from the jogger's murder and leads it to Amanda, a missing person. Dom interviews her husband but gets nowhere. Meanwhile, at the hospital, Freddy sees the Birdman, takes off the mask to reveal a dead Henry. Robert then suffocates Freddy after she reveals her love for Henry. Robert reveals that this is his gift to her and she passionately kisses him. Liam finds the password and reveals to Lola about the hospital, and she leaves. Robert takes Freddy to a high tower and threatens to kill her, but she smartly stabs him. Jackson deduces that Robert is the Birdman and messages Lola. Lola rushes out and holds Liam at knifepoint. He then stabs him in the neck, and drives off. Jackson calls Dom to get an armed unit to Robert's house and an excavation team to the hospital. Just then, he gets to an accident with Robert's van. Jackson rushes to Liam and sees Freddy attending to Liam. Lola interview Freddy and thanks her for saving Liam, but Lola reveals that one of the cameras captured her stabbing Henry. Lola reconciles with Jackson for his great help in the investigation, but they get an anonymous letter telling that Freddy should be released otherwise others will die. | |||||
Release[edit]
The first series premiered in the United Kingdom on Alibi on 27 May 2020.[1][2] The second series debuted on Alibi on 5 May 2022.[3]
The series premiered in the United States on Showtime on 9 August 2020.[9] The second series debuted on Showtime on 3 July 2022.[10]
Reception[edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 11 critics' reviews of the first season are positive, with an average rating of 4.7/10.[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the first season a score of 59 out of 100, based on nine critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[12]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Hermione Corfield: one of everything". Virgin Media. 13 September 2020.
- ^ a b "'We Hunt Together' Star Hermione Corfield on Not Being the Damsel in Distress". Collider. 14 September 2020.
- ^ a b "We Hunt Together: Season 2 release date of Alibi thriller series, cast and where was it filmed?". NationalWorld. 4 May 2022.
- ^ a b c "We Hunt Together: Cast". Alibi. 27 May 2020.
- ^ "TBB Talks to... Actor, Poet, and Writer Babirye Bukilwa". The British Blacklist. 8 November 2020.
- ^ "We Hunt Together (2020)". Moriareviews.com. 16 March 2021.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 2". Radio Times. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ White, Peter (24 June 2020). "Showtime Pushes Back Abolitionist Miniseries 'The Good Lord Bird', Picks Up British Drama 'We Hunt Together' To Fill Slot". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ Priola, Victoria (3 July 2022). "'We Hunt Together' Season 2 premiere: How to watch and stream". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 1". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "We Hunt Together: Season 1". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
