Leaving, ITV1, review - Telegraph Her slightly uptight and stiff demeanour belied her warm and passionate nature. That they ended up, a little conveniently, working together as wedding organisers at a country house hotel, with her as his boss, gave them the plausible proximity they needed to embark upon their affair. The workplace is, after all, the spiritual home of sexual tension - that thrilling risk of being caught. When she, a married woman with children not much younger than her new lover, said she felt confused by the situation she found herself in, you believed her. Her love for him, though not overtly declared, looked like it could become dangerously addictive. As well as an age divide they also had to bridge, a little less convincingly, a social divide. He was much posher than she. After episode one you were left feeling pretty sure this could never work, but you still wanted to stick around to find out quite how it was going to unravel. I'm guessing from the title that one of them might be leaving the other. Unless McCrory's character leaves her husband for the younger man? That might work. With shades of Educating Rita, she wants to improve her lot and educate herself, in other words become more like him. This was a good vehicle for McCrory who has suffered slightly from being far too convincing and memorable as Cherie Blair in The Queen, and from having her career overshadowed by her husband's (Damian Lewis, star of Homeland). It also felt like more comfortable territory for Tony Marchant whose previous dramas included the grindingly predictable, Guardian-pleasing anti-Iraq war drama Mark of Cain. A tentative thumbs up for Leaving then, based on the story so far.