When I told my wife that Deep Water is being compared to Big Little Lies, she laughed.
Well it features married women with kids who have secrets and Deep Water has some lush scenery of the Lake District instead of a California beach town.
Kate (Rosalind Eleazar) Roz (Sinead Keenan) and Lisa (Anna Friel) are three friends living in Windermere. Kate is well to do with a sister who is more smug and affluent, Roz is financially struggling with a partner who is a gambling addict.
Roz gets an indecent proposal from a wealthy client for no strings sex which might help her out from her financial predicament. Lisa who has an hectic time balancing running a business with a family life still finds time squeezing some sex with Kate's brother in law.
It is all frothy and soapy with a sting involving a missing teenager by the end of the first episode.
However there is something clunky, cliched and cold about it. This six parter is being stretched and I found the first episode took an age to get going.