TV series

Summer's Lease

1989 · 1 season

A sun-drenched Tuscan holiday that slowly curdles into quiet suspicion, watched with the patience of a good detective novel.

Tagline: A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic
Overview: Fortysomething wife and mother Molly Pargeter leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life, Molly has found escape in detective novels and art books, especially on 15th-century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Suddenly, in the small ads, she spots the details of a Tuscany villa to let, and after a viewing, she takes it for holiday.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, satirical and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Mystery, identity, family, betrayal
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
identity
family
betrayal
art
Places: countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild