The Salisbury Poisonings (Season 1)

The Salisbury Poisonings (2020) is a three-part BBC drama you can watch online on iFILM. It reconstructs what unfolded in a quiet English town in spring 2018, after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found slumped and unconscious on a bench near a shopping centre.

There are almost no spies here. The camera stays at street level, with the people left to clean up the aftermath. A local public-health official races to map how far a nerve agent has spread. The first officer on the scene ends up fighting for his own life in a hospital bed. And an ordinary resident brushes against the poison by chance, paying for it with her life months later. Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and MyAnna Buring play them quietly, with no heroic swagger.

Director Saul Dibb built the story not around the toxin but around how council workers and neighbours hold a town together while it teeters on the edge. A tense, deeply human miniseries for fans of fact-rooted drama. Stream every episode of The Salisbury Poisonings (2020) online on iFILM.