
Synopsis
The Sixth Commandment (2023) is a BBC true-crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. In a quiet Buckinghamshire village, a devout retired schoolmaster named Peter Farquhar lets a charming young theology student into his life — and pays for it with his death.
Timothy Spall plays Peter; Éanna Hardwicke plays Ben Field, the churchwarden who works his way into a lonely believer's home. It starts with talk of faith and companionship. Then come the rewritten will, the staged accidents and a slow poisoning that everyone mistakes for old age. A second thread runs alongside it: Peter's neighbour, played by Sheila Hancock, falls under the same spell, and the show lets her quiet dignity carry real weight.
Directed by Saul Dibb across four episodes, the series reconstructs a case that stunned England without ever turning grief into spectacle. This isn't a whodunit — you know early who is doing what. It's a study of how trust gets weaponised, told in long looks and unbearable silences. Restrained, devastating, and best watched slowly. Stream The Sixth Commandment (2023) online on iFILM.
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