Best: His Mother's Son (2009)

• 70%
• 2009
• Comedy
• Drama
• TV Movie
• Colin Barr
• Lorcan Cranitch
• Luke de Woolfson
• Laurence Doherty

Best – His Mother's Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son's footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.