The Fifth Commandment is a portrait of loneliness and the spaces of danger that trust in strangers generates. The mechanisms of vulnerability are masterfully explored in the four episodes directed by Saul Dibb.
The work of Timothy Spall and Anne Reid make up two of the saddest characters on recent television. Two older people who have assumed that the world no longer has anything exciting to offer them. And then a psychopath offers it to him. This is a series about intimacy and its corruption, about faith and its simulation, about loneliness and its traps.