‘The Ex-Wife’ blasts the gaslight flame in creepy psychodrama

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BritBox and based on Jess Ryder’s book of the same name, features an English cast familiar to the US TV audience: Tom Mison (Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow”), Janet Montgomery (NBC’s late, great “New Amsterdam”) and Céline Buckens (“Free Rein,” “Warrior”).

It’s a trope-laden drama with just enough surprises to keep viewers interested as it barrels along to a booming finale.The series opens with a meet-not-so-cute between media executive Jack Warrington (Mison) and graphic designer Natasha (“Tasha”), who’s riding her bicycle to work on a busy street when a speeding Jack plows into her with his car.She’s not seriously injured, save for a few bumps and bruises, including a scraped-up arm, and Jack — sheepish, apologetic and wanting to avoid “a scene” — promises to pay for her smashed-up bike.

He takes her back to his ginormous home in a leafy London suburb to tend to her arm and soothe her frazzled, dazed nerves.Jack is obviously well-off and is living alone; turns out he’s in a “trial separation” from his wife, Jen (Montgomery), and, after a bit of flirting, asks the much-younger Tasha out for dinner.

One thing leads to another and in 3 … 2 … 1 there’s the gratuitous semi-blurry, soft-focus sex scene. In short order they marry, she gets pregnant and they welcome a baby girl, Emily.