Archie Panjabi

Run, series finale review: it had charm, sex, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge – but was anybody watching?

• Did Run (Sky Comedy) run out of steam? Billed as “From the minds behind Fleabag”, the lovers-on-the-lam comedy thriller arrived on our screens in mid-April with a snappy premise and an attendant blaze of publicity. Six weeks of lockdown later, it slightly limped over the finish line like a London Marathon jogger with seized-up hamstrings and serious chafing. The seventh and final episode found rekindled old flames Ruby (Merritt Wever) and Billy (Domhnall Gleeson) approaching the end of their journey. After hitching a ride through the snow on a logging truck, they hopped back on their cross-country Amtrak train from New York to Los Angeles. Billy had vowed to hand himself in as a suspect-cum-witness in the grisly death of his assistant Fiona (Archie Panjabi). However, when the train guard assumed the couple had been locked in their sleeper cabin all night, they realised they had an alibi and might just get away with it.