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Patience… Patience Evans… Not quite James Bond, but she works in a criminology dept, filing police records, although the woman on their reception is about as unhelpful as Cineworld’s customer service.
She’s autistic, which apparently helps her problem-solve better. So, it sounds like Ludwig, but serious.
After a shocking death for a man who’s only just withdrawn £8000 from his bank account, and deposited it in a bin (for someone to collect later, I suspected?), Patience’s (Ella Maisy Purvis) condition leads to a situation such as leaving cop DI Bea Metcalf (Laura Fraser) assume the young lady has made a mistake by bringing her two files instead of the one requested, to which Patience replies with connections such as how they both died on a Friday, and on the 4th of the month.
As an example of her day-to-day life, when a man asks her out at the bus stop, beginning, “Have you got a minute?”, she literally gives him just the minute before boarding her bus. However, he did ask for her phone number, which she gave beginning 07700, and that’s a fake prefix for TV shows and films, so he won’t be getting hold of her any time soon.
Seriously, though, I am intrigued to see where this will go, and while both of the first two episodes were available for preview, given that they’re on consecutive nights, I’ll watch ep.2 onwards live.
Note that even though I’m posting this after the episode has been broadcast, I’ll still leave out potential spoilers in this review – so there’s not a huge amount to say after just the opener – as a lot of people watch on catch-up.
UPDATE Episode 2:
UPDATE Episode 3:
UPDATE Episode 4:
Thanks to our friends at Channel 4 for the screener prior to release.
Patience begins tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm, and will be on All 4. Personally, for this one, I saw the New Zealand broadcast.
It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but when it is, it will be listed on the New DVD, Blu-ray, 3D and 4K releases UK page.
Cert: 
Running time: 45 minutes per episode (6 episodes)
Release date: January 8th 2025
Channel: Channel 4
Format: 2.00:1
Director: Maarten Moerkerke
Producer: Alison Kee
Writers: Matt Baker, Stephen Brady, Daniella DeVinter, Sarah Freethy
Music: Ruben De Gheselle, Hannes De Maeyer
Cast:
Patience Evans: Ella Maisy Purvis
DI Bea Metcalf: Laura Fraser
Calvin Baxter: Mark Benton
Elliot Scott: Tom Lewis
Dr. Loretta Parsons: Liza Sadovy
Will Akbari: Ali Ariaie
DS Jake Hunter: Nathan Welsh
George Evans: Jamie Maclachlan
Baxter’s PA (Assistant Detective): Dieuwke de Mooij
Alfie Metcalf-Haynes: Maxwell Whitelock
Young Patience (11 years old): Ava Cook
Miss Page: Shireen Farkhoy
Yemaya Vasquez: Joana Borja
Mathilde Evans: Lotte Lauren
Penny Tate: Sand Van Roy
Aldous Tate: Rupert Holliday-Evans
Vicky Crick: Sabina Arthur
Dr Aadesh Chopra: Deepak Verma
Prisha Chopra: Rekha John-Cheriyan
Josie: Madeleine Bowyer
David Haynes: Eddie Elks
Douglas Gilmour: Adrian Rawlins
Dr Loretta Parsons: Liza Sadovy
Dr. Brendan Clark: Joseph Arkley
Theo: Lewis Ian Bray
Dev: Darren J Bransford
Naomi Jamieson: Beverley Longhurst
Maya: Divya
Young man at bus stop: Nathan Graham
Officious reception colleague: Sharon Verdegem
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