The Fortune favours the brave as KATHRYN FLETT reviews Channel 5’s latest psychological drama

Chance

Tuesday/Wednesday: Channel 5

Evaluation:

‘We must get the money! It’s like winning the lottery!’ says Jimmy (Matthew Lewis, Murder Before Evensong) to his lady Amanda (Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson).

‘But we don’t play the lottery!’ Spotlight on Amanda (right) who has recently learned that she has inherited two million pounds and a Very Large House in the Country from a man she does not know.

Considering that the plot ranges from ‘preposterous’ to ‘100 percent completely implausible in every conceivable way’, this latest dark, starry (Rebecca Front, Paula Wilcox, Stephen Tomkinson, Nina Wadia and Denis Lawson) tale ranks mid-table in the Overwrought Channel Five Drama League.

And that’s a compliment because I couldn’t stop watching the first two of the four available episodes.

It’s admittedly a bit sneaky to turn Amanda’s mother (Wilcox) into a dementia patient, which ensures that her probing questions are never answered – and when she starts digging too deeply into the back story, naturally the pub owner soon begins to warn her: ‘We’re a tight little community, we all look out for each other.’

But (as another old cliché almost says) The Fortune favors the brave; so I bought a ticket to Euromillions while Amanda continued talking.

Fortune airs on Channel 5 on Tuesday and Wednesday and is also available to watch on Channel 5.

Pictured: Mathew Lewis as Jimmy Brent, Eleanor and Danielle Walters and Sandy See as Amanda

Picture: Callum Woodhouse as Anthony Worrall