The Fortune favours the brave as KATHRYN FLETT reviews Channel 5's latest psychological drama

The Fortune 

Tuesday/Wednesday: Channel 5

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'We must take the money! It's like winning the lottery!' says Jimmy (Matthew Lewis, Murder Before Evensong) to his missus, Amanda (Poldark's Eleanor Tomlinson). 

'But we don't play the lottery!' points out Amanda (right), who's recently learned she's inherited two million quid and a Very Big House In The Country from a man she doesn't know.

Given the plot veers between 'implausible' and '100 per cent totally implausible in every conceivable way', this latest murky, starry (Rebecca Front, Paula Wilcox, Stephen Tomkinson, Nina Wadia and Denis Lawson) tale falls mid-table in the Overwrought Channel Five Drama League.  

And that's a compliment because I couldn't stop watching the first two (of four) available episodes.

Granted it's a bit sneaky making Amanda's mum (Wilcox) a dementia sufferer, thus ensuring that her searching questions never get answered – and when she starts to dig too deeply into the back story, naturally the pub landlord is soon warning her, 'We're a tight little community, we all look out for each other.' 

However (as another old cliché nearly has it), The Fortune favours the brave – so while Amanda cracks on, I've bought a ticket for Euromillions.

The Fortune airs Tuesday and Wednesday on Channel 5 and is also available to stream on Channel 5.