The Tower
Taste attributes: dramamysterycrimeslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricateenclosedcomplex relationshipfighting evilsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeA weighty, layered drama series: fresh and contained. Best if you like depth over escapism.
Taste details
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: very intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
7.2 /10
TMDB · 38 votes
Where to watch
Streaming data: JustWatch
Seasons
Season 1
· 2021 · 3 episodesA veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie PC Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. DS Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
Episodes (3)
1Episode 18 Nov 2021
DS Sarah Collins and her colleague, DC Steve Bradshaw, officers in the Directorate of Special Investigations (DSI), are called to an incident at Portland Tower in south east London. They find at the bottom of the tower the dead bodies of long-serving police officer, PC Hadley Matthews, and a 15-year-old Libyan…
2Episode 29 Nov 2021
With Lizzie still on the run, Sarah finally persuades her boss, DCI Tim Bailie, to go public about Lizzie's disappearance. Later, she makes a series of discoveries about the events that led up to the Portland Tower fall which further complicate the case.
3Episode 310 Nov 2021
Lizzie decides to turn herself in, but first she meets Kieran Shaw in secret, who tries to persuade her not to implicate herself. When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emerges
Following the dramatic climax of season one, rookie PC Lizzie Adama returns to her London police station, where she finds herself fighting to protect a mother and daughter in peril. DS Sarah Collins, having transferred to Homicide Command, reopens a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl that leads her to cross paths with Lizzie again. DI Kieran Shaw wants to recruit DS Steve Bradshaw for a specialist task force targeting a major organized crime figure but must convince Steve he can be trusted.
Episodes (4)
1Episode 116 May 2023
Sarah searches for a vanished teenager; Lizzie investigates a case of domestic violence.
2Episode 223 May 2023
Sarah and Lizzie find themselves working on the same murder case.
3Episode 330 May 2023
As the manhunt closes in on Brannon, Sarah realizes where Tania's body might be buried.
4Episode 46 Jun 2023
The Brannon manhunt reaches its climax, and Sarah faces Tania's killer.
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What lines up
- Intricacy: Smart / intricate, just how this profile likes it
- Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
- Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Emotional punch: Balanced emotional punch, where this profile leans emotive / stirring
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Synopsis
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
Synopsis: TMDB
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- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 2021
- Episode length
- 46 min
- Status
- Returning
- Studio
- Mammoth Screen
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