The Drowning on AccornTv
The Drowning on AccornTv – Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son.
When you write a show about a mother desperate to get back a child that she has lost, the toughest thing is to cast that mom.
You want to make sure the acting job shows the pain and desperation the mother exhibits but also make the mother sympathetic and not a stalker.
The Drowning benefits from a performance that tiptoes that line very well.
Storyline for The Drowning on AccornTv
Nine years later, Jodie Walsh (Jill Halfpenny) is still rebuilding her life, but is about to pitch a big project for the landscaping firm she owns with her friend Yasmin (Jade Anouka).
She’s on her way to make the pitch when she spots a curly-haired teenager (Cody Molko) walking to catch the bus to school.
He’s carrying a guitar. It looks exactly like her son Tom, who supposedly drowned at that lake but whose body was never found.
Jodie decides to ditch her work pitch and follow the boy to his school.
She even spies a scar under his left eye. She then follows the teen back to his sprawling house. When she goes to talk to her ex-husband, Ben Gilmore (Dara Devaney) about it — much to the annoyance of his current wife, Kate (Deirdre Mullins) — he just thinks she hasn’t put Tom’s death in the past yet.
Determined to get closer to the teen, Jodie applies for a music tutor job at his school.
She’s told that she can’t start until she gets the proper paperwork, which she does (at least a faked version of it) with the help from Ade (Babs Olusanmokun), one of her employees.
When she does get into class, he introduces herself to the boy, Daniel Tanner, and encourages him to get guitar lessons. When she sees his father Mark (Rupert Perry-Jones) at a “welcome back” event, she pushes the lessons, but Mark refuses.
At this point, she’s convinced that this teen is Tom, and that he was abducted from the lake.
But also at this point, she’s the only one who thinks this. Tom’s death has definitely formed a rift in the Walsh family, with Jodie barely speaking to her brother Jason (Jonas Armstrong); at his encouragement, he attends the funeral of their father, who died suddenly.
But when she sees her mother Lynn (Deborah Findlay) outside the church, she coldly tells her “sorry for your loss.” “He always blamed me [for Tom’s death].
So you know what? Fuck him,” she tells Jason.
Episodes of The Drowning on AccornTv
S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1
A woman on the edge seeks her missing son. Jodie believes a teenager she has seen is her son who has been missing for nine years, and she begins a plan to get him back.
Storyline for The Drowning on AccornTv S1.E2 ∙ Episode #1.2
Jodie uses a private lesson gives Daniel to quiz him about his past. Jodie’s family urge her to accept that her son is dead. An incident at school gets them looking deeper into Jodie’s background.
S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3
Jodie makes a plan with Daniel to source him a passport and flee the country for a fresh start, but when she returns from visiting the forgers, Daniel has gone.
Storyline for The Drowning on AccornTv S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4
With the confusion around Daniel’s identity increasing every second, secrets start to unearth, and it seems someone close will stop at nothing to protect themselves and stop Jodie’s hunt for the truth from taking them down.
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