"But first, The Revenge Club, in which he is a revelation. The setting is a support group for divorcees, a ragtag gang united by nothing but the fact that they've been summarily dismissed by their spouses. There's no other reason for these characters to be in each other's lives. They're all desperate and lonely and in dire need of companionship."
"If that sounds miserable, it is anything but even the scenes in a beat-up community centre are heightened, exotic and alive with possibility. The acts of revenge, undertaken by the whole group against one ex at a time, start off pretty mild: rats down the chimney, remote messing with a Spotify playlist, that order of magnitude. When they get into spiking a drink, though, things turn darker and I think it's fair to say, life-threateningly so."
Martin Compston appears in three roles, including a revelatory turn in The Revenge Club and a familiar taciturn hero in Red Eye. The Revenge Club is set in a support group for divorcees whose members are united by having been summarily dismissed by their spouses. The characters are desperate, lonely and in dire need of companionship, which creates an explosive mix. Revenge acts escalate from mild pranks—rats down chimneys and messing with playlists—to spiking drinks and life-threatening consequences. The show blends intense emotional scenes with caper-like plotting, drawing comparisons to Russian Doll and Ocean’s Eleven while occupying its own distinctive space.
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