Jimmy McGovern's "The Street"

Last night's episode was stunning. Brilliant performances from Neil Dudgeon and Lindsay Coulson.

The great thing about this series is that you never quite know which way the story's going to go or how everyone ends up looking. So the "i'm innocent" cries were deftly counterbalanced by the little signifiers, carefully dropped in throughout, to suggest that Dudgeon's teacher might not have been as innocent as he thought.

The ending was a little rushed and a little too convenient, but as a whole it worked beautifully.

Jim Broadbent's one line of dialogue was one of the most stunningly moving things I've seen on TV in ages. It was the absolute centerpiece of the story.