Appropriate Adult (Season 1)

Appropriate Adult (2011) — watch online on iFILM. This two-part ITV drama, directed by Julian Jarrold, is drawn from the documented history of Janet Leach, a woman from Gloucester who was assigned as appropriate adult — a legal safeguard for vulnerable suspects — during police interviews with Fred West in 1994.

Emily Watson plays Leach; Dominic West takes on Fred West and makes him unsettling precisely because he seems so ordinary. What Janet heard in those interview rooms went far beyond her official remit: West confided in her, and she carried those secrets for years. The series is less interested in the crimes than in the psychological pull a calculating person can exert on an ordinary one. Stream Appropriate Adult online on iFILM.