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Too Good To Be True review: Heed the warnings in fairytales, don't open that forbidden door! writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


Warnings in fairytales are given to us for a reason. Take heed, and don't steal gingerbread from the witch's cottage or stay out after midnight on a first date.

The legend of Bluebeard, a serial killer who keeps the bodies of his dead wives hanging in a secret annexe, was first recorded in the 17th century by Charles Perrault in his Tales Of Mother Goose — though some academics trace it to a Breton nobleman called Cunmar the Accursed, who decapitated his pregnant wife Triphine 1,500 years ago. Tech support of the night: Aisling Bea, heartsick but unbowed as the betrayed wife Lynn in Alice And Jack (Ch4), did what we've all longed to do when a mobile phone just won't stop ringing — took a mallet and smashed it to pieces. But the tale is pacy and well constructed, and Charlie Hodson-Prior as Liam creates a believable motive for Rachel to want to escape her life of drudgery and fling herself into the arms of a millionaire.

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