This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
Six months after it was called a “blistering” “tour de force” by Australian critics, and nearly a year since The Spinoff declared it the best drama New Zealand has ever made, After the Party has premiered today in the United Kingdom to equally rave reviews. The “gritty, wrenching and highly confronting” drama stars Robyn Malcolm as Wellington teacher Penny, who accuses her husband Phil (Scottish actor Peter Mullan) of a sex crime at a boozy house party.
What happens next is a six-part white knuckle ride through one deeply fallible yet doggedly determined woman’s quest to unearth the truth, while everyone else desperately tries to move on.
