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Mr Bates vs The Post Office

2024 · 1 season

A quiet, righteous anger builds as ordinary people are ground down by an indifferent institution, and you ache for them.

Created by
James Strong
Genres
Drama
Starring
Toby Jones, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Monica Dolan
Overview
The story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

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  • ITVX Premium
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Created by
James Strong
Genres
Drama
Starring
Toby Jones, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Monica Dolan
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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • justice
  • corruption
  • power
  • betrayal
  • trauma
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
  • ensemble
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Created by
James Strong
Written by
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Starring
Toby Jones, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Monica Dolan, Shaun Dooley, Ian Hart, Lia Williams, Will Mellor, Amy Nuttall
Cinematography
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Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes
Network
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Country
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Languages
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