If there’s one thing Sean Bean knows about, it’s resurrection. When you add up his deaths per movies made, he has died on screen more frequently than almost any other actor — equal to Bela Lugosi and just ahead of Mickey Rourke. So it’s appropriate that his modern Catholic priest in a run-down northern city has no issue with faith — he believes in the scriptures, if not in the church. His problems stem purely from the material world.
Broken, Jimmy McGovern’s new BBC drama, takes the complications of the clergy that he first explored in his 1994 movie Priest and adds hints of I, Daniel Blake and Boys from the Blackstuff. At the heart of it is Bean’s Father Michael Kerrigan, a man with
