Viewers want Keeley Hawes to "win all the awards" for Summer of Rockets

Stephen Poliakoff drama Summer of Rockets blasted onto our screens on Wednesday night – and viewers thought Keeley Hawes' performance was on another planet.

The Durrells and Bodyguard star plays Kathleen Shaw, the wife of a Tory MP who befriends inventor and hearing aid manufacturer Samuel Petrukhin (Toby Stephens). Kathleen makes her debut in episode one, impressing fans with an award-worthy performance.

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Twitter users were full of praise for Keeley Hawes...

https://twitter.com/kkhawes/status/1131396250954166272

https://twitter.com/HawesandSpicy/status/1131399198069411840

https://twitter.com/VickMontague/status/1131294172797984768

https://twitter.com/DStuartDavies/status/1131310635713781760

https://twitter.com/NeilStuke/status/1131302829426135040

https://twitter.com/haweskeeley01/status/1131442351153590272

Although when Kathleen was forced to make an impromptu speech and fill in time when her husband Richard Shaw MP (Linus Roache) went AWOL just before he was due on stage, one fan had flashbacks to Julia Montague in Bodyguard:

https://twitter.com/ClaireCheshire/status/1131296847593660417

But Keeley Hawes was far from the only good thing about Summer of Rockets. In fact, there was high praise all round...

https://twitter.com/libbyodowd/status/1131490805250703367

https://twitter.com/SusanJe23074261/status/1131450688372903936

https://twitter.com/Simon_Craven/status/1131313720309817344

https://twitter.com/joannayoung6/status/1131308423117791238

Summer of Rockets will continue on Wednesdays at 9pm on BBC2. The entire series is available on BBC iPlayer now.