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Cuckoo review: Mad women, sly men, a fab kitchen... this is psycho-drama by numbers, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

Rule One of a good domestic psychodrama is: men, they're all the same, you can't trust them. Rule Two: however superficially sane they might seem, all women are mad.

You might think she's succumbed to the temptation of that huge rustic kitchen, but there's a deeper scheme sizzling away with the bacon and eggs — she's going to steal her hosts' teenage daughter, Alice (Freya Hannan-Mills). She rows constantly with her mum Jessica (Claire Goose), spends long evenings drawing zombies with empty eye sockets, and reacts to bad news by stealing her dad's car and deliberately crashing it into a ditch. But it follows hard on Kate Winslet's turn in The Regime on Sky Atlantic, as a woman capable of governing an entire country but also in the throes of an acrimonious divorce from reality.

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