Then You Run review like Derry Girls but with a lot more murder and heroin

This thriller follows four uproariously funny teenage girls on a banter-packed jaunt to Rotterdam. A drug gang chases them, a serial killer is on the loose and it all gets enjoyably terrifying

Then You Run appears to be a frenetic hybrid of Luther and The Hangover, with an added sprinkle of Scandi-noir bleakness – and four teenage girls as the lead characters. It follows four friends’ misadventures (and then some) on what was supposed to be a brief holiday in Rotterdam, and the violent, unholy mess that emerges. This eight-parter is an enjoyably chaotic thriller that looks the business, and doesn’t take its foot off the pedal for a second.

It begins in 2005, and, for the opening scene of each episode, it plays out like a particularly bleak mid-00s offshoot of The Killing. The deaths we witness are the work of a serial killer called The Traveller, who murders quite an astonishing amount of people, mostly in the middle of the night, in all manner of chilling scenarios: in snowbound traffic jams, roadside hotels and on sleeper trains. So thank you to the writers for the additional travel anxiety that this leaves in its wake.

Then You Run aired on Sky Max and is available on Now TV.

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