# Requiem (2018)

> A gifted cellist uncovers evidence linking her mother's sudden suicide to a toddler's vanishing from a Welsh village twenty-three years earlier.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/66496

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: mystery, drama, horror
- Created by: Kris Mrksa
- Network: BBC One
- Cast: Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, Joanna Scanlan, Brendan Coyle, Claire Rushbrook, Tara Fitzgerald, Clare Calbraith, Sian Reese-Williams
- TMDB rating: 6.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6712390/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: slow
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: brooding, eerie, ominous, melancholic, tense

## What critics say

Audiences rate the miniseries mixed, with its slow-burn supernatural mystery praised for atmosphere but its clichéd, derivative supernatural elements faulted.

## Synopsis

Requiem (2018) is a British miniseries created by Kris Mrksa for BBC One, a six-episode supernatural mystery that blends thriller and psychological horror. Rising cello star Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson) is the protagonist, a London musician whose life unravels when her mother Janice Gray (Joanna Scanlan) dies by suicide without any apparent reason. Among her mother's belongings Matilda finds tantalising evidence tying the family to the disappearance of a toddler from a small Welsh village in 1994, and she is drawn into a search for the truth that grows increasingly unsettling. Her investigation pulls in other characters, including Harlan 'Hal' Fine (Joel Fry) and Stephen Kendrick (Brendan Coyle), as the past seeps into the present. The engine is a slow burn: each episode peels back another layer of an old case while ominous, chilling imagery and unexplained events keep the viewer uneasy. Told in a single run of six hour-long episodes, the series is a self-contained limited story rather than a long-running saga. Its brooding, eerie register and haunting mood will appeal to viewers who enjoy British psychological thrillers with supernatural undercurrents. Fans of The Haunting of Hill House, Broadchurch and Twin Peaks will find resonance in its atmosphere of unease and buried secrets.

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