In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.
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Episodes
1. Matilda
Successful cellist Matilda Grey puts her career on hold to investigate whether her mother's suicide is connected to the disappearance of a girl from a Welsh village.
2. The Blue Room
Matilda has unsettling encounters with residents of Penllynith and grows increasingly suspicious of Rose, while events in Dean House become evermore sinister.
3. The Necklace
Matilda's revelation reopens old wounds for the residents of Penllynith, and the Dean family's sinister connections are revealed. Rose is pushed to breaking point.
4. Blaidd Carreg
Matilda starts to piece things together, with help from an unexpected source. Graves investigates the suspicious circumstances surrounding Ewan's death.
5. Bessie
Laura warns Matilda that she is in grave danger, as Graves grows suspicious of Aron and Ed, and Hal vows to get to the bottom of things once and for all.
6. Carys
Matilda ignores Sean's advice that she should leave Penllynith, choosing instead to protect Davey.
Cast & Crew
Lydia Wilson
Matilda Gray
Joel Fry
Harlan 'Hal' Fine
Joanna Scanlan
Janice Gray
Brendan Coyle
Stephen Kendrick
Claire Rushbrook
Rose Morgan
Tara Fitzgerald
Sylvia Walsh
Clare Calbraith
PC Graves
Sian Reese-Williams
Trudy Franken
Sam Hazeldine
Sean Howell
James Frecheville
Nick Dean
Richard Harrington
Aron Morgan
Simon Kunz
Lloyd Satlow
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Reviews & Thoughts
_**Clichéd and derivative nonsense**_ > _Even if we say we are not, we are all fascinated by the possibility of another dimension. The mystery of life is riveting. We are all searching for the answers to the Great Unknowns. It's a very human quest; why are we here? Where are we? We are always trying to explain and rationalise things – that's a human impulse. Science will take us to a certain point, and we're relieved about that. But then something else will leap out of the bottle, and we can't explain it. In_ Requiem_, Matilda is searching for her identity. But on a larger level, it's about_ _how we are all looking for our place in the universe._ - Tara Fitzgerald; "_Requiem_: The Cast Interviews"; _Ginger Nuts of Horror_ (January 24, 2018) Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson) is a talented cellist whose life is turned upside down when her mother, Janice (Joanna Scanlan), suddenly commits suicide. Whilst going through Janice's possessions, Matilda finds newspaper clippings reporting on the disappearance of a young girl from a small Welsh village 23 years earlier. With her best friend Hal Fine (Joel Fry) by her side, Matilda travels to Wales to try to find out why her mother was so interested in the case, and what she finds will cause her to call into question everything she thought she knew. Requiem is not a very good show. The plot is utterly derivative, with writer Kris Mrksa stealing bountifully from everything ranging from Henry James's _The Turn of the Screw_ (1898), to Jack Starrett's _Race with the Devil_ (1975) to Robert Eggers's _The VVitch: A New-England Folktale_ (2015). Matilda fails to engender even a modicum of empathy. She's deeply unlikable, and shows little self-awareness as she harasses a child and a clearly mentally-unstable woman. And then there's the tonal _raison d'être_ - the "horror" of it all. Director Mahalia Belo is very much of the modern school of horror filmmaking; mix equal parts shallow focus camerawork, high contrast shadows, and unnatural noises, and finish with a garnish of implausible jump scares. Also Tara Fitzgerald, as antiques dealer and all-round weirdo Sylvia Walsh, appears to have forgotten how to act. The last twenty minutes of the last episode are pretty decent, and properly creepy, but by then it's far too late.
