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American Rust

Sky Atlantic, 9pm & 10.10pm

You’ve surely turned to the wrong show if you’re on the hunt for slam-bang, non-stop action. Set in a small town in Pennsylvania where the best days are decades in the past, this finely crafted nine-part drama takes its time telling the story (based on a novel by Phillip Meyer) and is all the better for it.

Del Harris (Jeff Daniels, right with Maura Tierney) is the police chief who’s hardly been rushed off his feet tackling what little crime there is in his sleepy community – that is, until a body turns up in an old steel mill and the main suspect for the murder is someone close to his own private life.

Told largely in flashback, the opening episode sets the scene in a gently compelling, if bleak, style, but stick around to the end or you’ll miss the dramatic twist in the closing seconds, setting up everything that follows. )))))

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