Picture from Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Mullan, Anastasia Hille, Harry Lloyd, Paul Nicholls, Richard E. Grant, Demosthenes Chrysan, Dragos Bucar, Shaban Arifi, Julia Ragnarsson, Danny Sapani, Nigel Lindsay, Osy Ikhile, Sidney Kean, Lisa McAllister, Catherine Winter, Amarildo Kola.

Episode two of The Fear sees the further mental disintegration of crime lord Richie Beckett and the disturbing brutality that passes between the two warring families taken up to an even higher gear.