Channel 4 viewers have threatened to boycott the broadcaster’s latest TV drama, The Gathering, as they have dubbed the ‘harrowing’ show ‘absolutely vile’.
The six-part series centres around a teenager being violently attacked at an illegal beach rave.
The attack sends shockwaves through a Merseyside community as friends and family try to seek out the truth by unveiling people’s deepest secrets and lies.
Sherlock star Vinette Robinson, 43, takes on the role of Natalie, a woman who is dubbed the ‘mother from hell’.
Her daughter, Jessica, played by Sadie Soverall, is a talented teen gymnast.
Channel 4 viewers have threatened to boycott their latest TV drama, The Gathering, which stars Vinette Robinson (pictured) as they have dubbed the ‘harrowing’ show ‘absolutely vile’
Sherlock star Vinette Robinson, 43, takes on the role of Natalie, a woman who is dubbed the ‘mother from hell’. Her daughter, Jessica, played by Sadie Soverall, is a talented teen gymnast
Despite her best efforts, she feels she cannot do anything to please her mother’s strict and overbearing standards.
In one scene, Natalie bursts in as Jessica is working and demands to see her mobile phone.
Jessica questions: ‘Mum are you drunk?’, as she sits working on her laptop.
And when she isn’t picked for the gymnast team, Natalie is totally indignant on her daughter’s behalf.
She even goes as far to threaten to move her from Liverpool to the city’s rival area Manchester, leaving all her friends and family behind.
But after viewers watched the scene, they were left less an impressed as some dubbed the mother ‘vile’ during ‘abusive’ scenes as they flocked to X to share their horror.
One penned: ‘It’s pretty dire so far. I doubt that I’ll bother watching the next episode #TheGathering’
‘It’s pretty dire so far. I doubt that I’ll bother watching the next episode #TheGathering’
The six-part series sees a violent attack on a teenager at an illegal beach rave. The attack sends shockwaves through a Merseyside community as friends and family try to seek out the truth by unveiling people’s deepest secrets and lies
But after TV buffs watched the scene, they were left less an impressed as some dubbed the mother ‘vile’ during ‘abusive’ scenes as they flocked to X to share their horror
‘Just watched Ruby Franke What a vile mother,Very harrowing,hope the kids recover from it, will be a long process,May be able to re-unite with Dad’
‘Vile woman. I think that it’s definitely abuse. Pushy parents are a nightmare – somehow mothers are always worse than fathers though. Dance Moms is crazy – it’s literally nothing to do with the kids – it’s the obsessed mothers! #TheGathering #DanceMoms’
‘That mum sent that Video she’s absolutely vile! #TheGathering’
The series is produced by World Production and was commissioned by Channel 4 in 2022.
The series is directed by Gareth Bryn and Amanda Blue, and produced by Graham Drover, with executive producers Simon Heath, Laura Cotton, alongside Walsh and Bryn.
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