THE ESSEX SERPENT

VICTORIAN ROMANCE

We’ve yet to see a serpent in Apple’s simmering Essex marshes drama, but it’s the romance that’s most important. It’s all about the longing and the looks – the heat that’s been generated between Cora and remarkably modern vicar Will, played very finely by Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston, has been burning up the screen. Even if the serpent never appears, watching those two gazing at each other is enough. Weekly, on Fridays