20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Code of Silence' review: Taut thriller with a deaf lead is a groundbreaking drama series
Code of Silence, a wonderfully suspenseful thriller, is written by Catherine Moulton, who has been partially deaf since birth
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Dramas that break new ground can come in all shapes and sizes. Still, the last place you'd expect to find boundaries being smashed is in an ITV crime drama.
It's long been considered unacceptable for characters with a disability to be played by actors without one, which was the norm back in the days of series like Ironside (wheelchair-using police chief) and Longstreet (blind insurance investigator).
