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ITV fans binge-watch Top Boy star’s ’10/10′ new thriller in one sitting – gushing ‘I’m so hooked!’
The author of the novel from which the show was adapted, Louise Doughty, struggled to believe the show would be possible to create.
ITV viewers have been praising a newly released supernatural thriller as they binge-watched the series from start to finish.
Top Boy star Jasmine Jobson looks worlds away from her gangster character Jaq as she takes on the role of Lisa in ITV's new thriller Platform 7.
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The broadcaster's new four-part series, based around a woman called Lisa, has earned impeccable reviews since it was released last month.
The limited psychological drama follows the young woman's ghost, stuck on Platform 7, where she died.
After she witnessed a cataclysmic incident take place on the same platform, the events prompted her to start her own investigation into her death, as she has no recollection of what happened to her.
Gradually, her fragmented and vivid memories start to surface, and some chilling revelations are unearthed.
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Since its release, viewers of the show have taken to social media and expressed their thoughts.
One X(Twitter) user said: “F**k me... Platform 7 on ITV is amazing. Episode 3 is a particularly hard watch, as is the whole series, so I had to binge watch - fantastic series, with the caveat that it's quite intense.”
Another added: “That platform 7 series is CRAZY! 10/10 from me.”
A third followed: “Really enjoyed Platform 7 on ITVX last night, Jak from Toy Boy played a blinder. Worth watching if you want to binge something this weekend.”
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A fourth wrote: “Platform 7 on ITV highly recommended. Great bit of British drama, that.”
A fifth chimed: “Can we please talk about #platform7 and amazing Jasmine Jobson is @ITVX . I’ve been hooked!!! Soooo good!!”
The star of the series, Jasmine, has previously spoken to media publications about what attracted her to the role of Lisa.
She revealed: “For me, at first, it had to be the supernatural bit!
“There’s something about being a spirit and being around people without their knowledge but being able to play about with them when you’ve irritated you.
“It’s something about the haunting that I was like, ‘You know what, I love it!’ So, that was the main hook for me, it was about the haunting side of things, but then, realistically, when it came down to the actual script, I haven't played anybody like Lisa before.
“For me, it was very much about trying something new and then just playing a character that I haven’t before.”
The author of the novel from which the show was adapted, Louise Doughty, struggled to believe the show would be possible to create due to the nature of the storyline, with Lisa being a ghost.
Louise revealed: “When it first got optioned, I thought, ‘They’re not going to be able to pull this one off.’
"To me, as a novelist, it felt almost unfilmable because, for the first third of the book, the main character doesn't interact with anybody else because she’s a ghost, she’s dead, she can’t speak to anyone!
“So I just couldn’t see how they were going to do it, but props to them, they’ve pulled it off.”
Another ITV drama raking up the ratings is Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which has also been a difficult watch for viewers as the story is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.
The series tells the story of how hundreds of sub-post managers were wrongly accused of stealing, false accounting, and fraud by the Post Office when, in fact, it was their own failing computer system causing accounting discrepancies.
Many were jailed, some suffered great mental turmoil, and at least one took their own life.
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But one man decided enough was enough - former subpostmaster Alan Bates, who himself had to leave his job over financial shortfalls, brought victims together to fight for justice.
Platform 7 is available to watch on ITVX.
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