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HIGH STAKES (THE CAGE & THE FOUR SEASONS, S2)

  THE CAGE Is there any actor working onscreen these days with sadder eyes than Michael Socha's? The ' This is England ' and ' Toxic Town ' actor is brilliantly deployed as a down on his luck, casino employee in Tony Schumacher's latest Liverpudlian drama 'The Cage' and he squeezes every bit of sympathy from us as his  character walks into one disastrous decision after another. Socha's Matty is a decent soul with some kind of magnetic pull towards trouble - a drug addict with a gambling addiction who is stealing from his employer who also happens to have links to organised crime. The thing is Matty's not the only employee who's robbing the casino. Sheridan Smith's struggling mother of two, Leanne is doing it too as she tries to keep her family together. And when she realises Matty's thieving too, they become co-conspirators. The problem, though, is Barry Sloane's thug Gary is laundering drugs money through the casino and is lookin...