Harriet Walter and Frances O’Connor play a mother and daughter grappling with life’s eternal questions in this funny and painfully perceptive dramaSo The End (Sky Atlantic) begins.
What follows is a story about parents and children, ethics and emotion, and mostly how it’s never too late to start again.Harriet Walter stars in a Sky original about how it's never too late to start over. The drama is about euthanasia and the right to die - but is it based on a true story? Kate gets her diagnosis and something happens that leads Edie to feel there really are moments worth living for.18 month minimum contract.

A heartbroken Oberon turns to Edie when a romantic encounter sends him into a panic.A drunken anniversary party at the retirement village leads to Oberon making a confession, Edie making an unexpected move and the arrival of an ambulance.An anxious Kate struggles to keep it together during a work conference and turns to drink for the first time in years.A tragedy forces Edie and Kate to make amends.

Set-up: £20 for new customers; up to £219 for existing customers.Watch exclusive dramas on Sky Atlantic and over 40 catch up channels, all in one place, on our incredible Sky Q Box It emerges that Edie underwent a double mastectomy for breast cancer, nursed her husband through bladder cancer and Parkinson’s disease, and, after his death, found his diaries full of detailed accounts of various infidelities. Created by Samantha Strauss. This seems to be the proximate cause of her suicide attempt(s) but, as we come to see over the course of the subtle, funny and quietly devastating opening episode, rarely is a life-or-death decision arrived at so simply.Her daughter Kate (Frances O’Connor) brings her over to Australia so she can be more closely supervised. Meanwhile, a diagnosis determines Art's future.Oberon hits an unexpected obstacle as he seeks testosterone therapy.
Is there a trailer for The End? Edie expected to be living with Kate herself (“You’ve got three and a half bathrooms!”), but is instead installed in a nearby luxury retirement village, lest she supervene her mother’s efforts by murdering her.Kate is a doctor specialising in palliative care at the local hospice. After she attempts to take her own life, Kate has little choice but to ship her out from England and deposit her in a nearby retirement village in the Gold Coast - Edie’s worst nightmare.While Kate struggles with her own problems, her children are trying to work out who they are, and who they want to be. The End Air date: Feb 10, 2020 Harriet Walter stars in a Sky original about how it's never too late to start over. Thou shalt not kill – but need one strive ever more officiously to keep someone alive?The End is a meditation on what makes life worth living and how much of it is within our control.

Sky Atlantic has released a trailer for bold new drama The End, starring Harriet Walter and Frances O'Connor and tackling the topic of euthanasia. Oberon’s story comes to the fore in later episodes, and the question of whether rebirth as a different gender makes for a good enough life adds another layer of complexity to the family and the story. Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count. On the other side of the world, Kate’s mother Edie Henley (Dame Harriet Walter) feels just as strongly about her right to die. Meanwhile, when Oberon lands himself in danger, it falls to Edie to rescue him.Edie heads out of her comfort zone when she agrees to sing in the village's annual Christmas show. Persephone (Ingrid Torelli) is a borderline sociopath (which to my mind is a fair reaction to being named Persephone) who is deeply interested in Grandma’s experiences and unperturbed by her father’s absence (“You have to go to prison sometimes if you’re doing big business”). On the other side of the world, Kate’s mother Edie Henley (Dame Harriet Walter) feels just as strongly about her right to die. Frances O’Connor plays Dr Kate Brennan, an Australian-based specialist in palliative care. Airing on Sky Atlantic in 2019, the ten-part drama The End follows three generations of a family preoccupied with one of the key questions of the modern age: how to die with dignity.

Edie is probably a natural termagant who would never have been the life and soul of the party, but her story invites us to think about how events cannot help but shape us. Walter plays – with such humanity, humour and grace that I hope this early posting in the year is not forgotten when awards are handed out – Edie, widowed six months previously. “It just takes practice,” Kate tells Edie, without much hope. “People often grow at the end. The mother and daughter’s relationship is so constructed as to make it clear that this is the cumulation of a lifetime of opposing views, and all the more painful for it.Kate has two daughters of her own. “I hate that argument,” Kate replies. Euthanasia is a hot-button topic in Kate’s field of work, and she is passionate in her opposition. Whether it is a sign of a new beginning or that the end is nigh neither we nor, we suspect, Edie know. “Love,” says the kindly paramedic sitting with her, “you’re still conscious.” So The End (Sky Atlantic) begins. Suicide and euthanasia are outcomes she spends her professional energies trying to avert. Alternatively, all episodes will be available to stream on NOW TV from that same date. Prices may change during this period. Titania (Morgan Davies) is struggling with their gender identity (“I thought she decided she wasn’t a lesbian,” says Edie, which is another reason she is in a retirement village and not the family home) and is now known as Oberon and using male pronouns. She argues with the patient’s husband when he waits for her in the car park. The End is about a family of three generations trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count. The final scene is of Edie, naked in the bath, scars on show, screaming. A suicide attempt reunites a mother and daughter.Edie babysits Persephone as Kate fights to rescue her reputation. A confession changes Edie and Pamela's relationship during a trip to stock up on weed.A difficult decision unexpectedly gives Edie a new lease of life.