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Gone review praises David Morrissey-led crime drama as year's most engrossing series

David Morrissey stars in Gone, a tense, shrewd crime drama as a strange headteacher whose wife has gone missing. The six-part series is created by George “Hijack” Kay. It is ostensibly a crime drama about the disappearance of the well-heeled wife of a private school headteacher. The show is described as a hugely taut show which will totally subvert your preconceptions. Gone is not a sitcom, a musical, a cooking show presented by sockless men with forearms like hams, a thing about whales, or Richard Osman’s House of Games. Behind the sales pitch squirm a multitude of wrigglier, trickier things such as the nature of guilt and co-dependence, the burden of professional expectation, and preoccupations.