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TV review: The Last Weekend; The Function Room; I'm Spazticus

19 August 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Two old uni buddies and their partners in a twee Suffolk cottage: could murder be afoot?

Fine writing, trenchant class analysis, a baby-doll robe scarcely concealing an enviably beach-ready body. But enough about me. There was so much to enjoy in The Last Weekend (ITV1, Sunday) that it made one forget that its chief role may be to prepare us for the return to our screens later this week of one marvellous actor with a you've-got-to-be kidding posh name (Benedict Cumberbatch) by deploying another (Rupert Penry-Jones).