The Cleaner (2021)

TV ShowDrama, Comedy, Crime3 seasons, 18 episodes
The Cleaner posterReview score: 73%

Plot

Paul ‘Wicky' Wickstead, is a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of work: as a crime scene cleaner he is responsible for the removal of any signs of death.Wicky works for Shropshire-based cleaning contractors Lausen and is usually found, together with his baby-blue pickup truck, at crime scenes after the police have concluded their detective work.Armed with chemicals, scrubbing brushes and cleaning rags, Wicky removes the gruesome mess at the scene of the crime. When carrying out his duties, he stumbles across the strangest of people: from the victim's relatives, employers, neighbours and acquaintances, to occasionally even the murderers themselves. And because he's a sociable type, he sometimes gossips more than he cleans

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Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The Cleaner S03E03The CommitteeS03E03 · 10.0Wicky repeatedly offends a building full of elderly people. The committee will hear of this...
  2. 02The Cleaner S03E01The ReunionS03E01 · 9.0Wicky finds himself on a job for an old childhood school friend, Justin, who it turns out has done rather well for himself.
  3. 03The Cleaner S03E02The BabyS03E02 · 9.0Wicky attempts to clean a hut for a furious pregnant lady.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2021Aired 6.9Season avg
  1. S01E01The Cleaner S01E01Season's bestThe WidowSeptember 10, 2021 7.5Professional crime-scene cleaner Wicky has to mop up after a particularly grisly murder, but keeps being interrupted by people unexpectedly
  2. S01E02The Cleaner S01E02The WriterSeptember 17, 2021 7.0Novelist Terence has two problems: his gran recently passed away, and he has writer’s block. Wicky thinks these issues might be related.
  3. S01E03The Cleaner S01E03The NeighbourSeptember 24, 2021 7.0When he brings the wrong keys to a crime scene, Wicky meets the neighbour - and might have met his match.
  4. S01E04The Cleaner S01E04The AristocratOctober 1, 2021 7.5Wicky arrives at a stately home to clean up a burglary gone wrong. But things aren’t what they seem, and Wicky’s morals are tested.
  5. S01E05The Cleaner S01E05The InfluencerOctober 8, 2021 6.0Wicky visits a social media influencer with millions of followers and an unhealthy obsession with the 1980s.
  6. S01E06The Cleaner S01E06The OneOctober 15, 2021 6.5Crime scene cleaner Wicky heads to the country to clean up a nasty mess in a holiday home, and bumps into his first ‘proper’ girlfriend.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2023Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S02E01The Cleaner S02E01The TransactionMarch 24, 2023 7.0Wicky faces the ultimate test of self-control: a job in a pub, after he’s promised his new girlfriend he’ll stay off the booze.
  2. S02E02The Cleaner S02E02Season's bestThe ClownMarch 31, 2023 8.0Wicky is hired by a theatre where a male strip show has got out of hand. A self-important clown, a whimsical theatre manager and a broken fi
  3. S02E03The Cleaner S02E03The Night ShiftApril 7, 2023 8.0Wicky is called to a shooting in a technology shop, where he finds himself sharing the night shift with Kai, a shelf-stacking conspiracy the
  4. S02E04The Cleaner S02E04The ShamanApril 14, 2023 8.0Wicky is on his way to clean up after a tragic death at a stately home, but there’s a shaman on the scene as well, and he has his own mystic
  5. S02E05The Cleaner S02E05The StatueApril 21, 2023 8.0Wicky is called to a quiet town where a row has broken out over a statue. Tempers in the town are running high, and it looks like things mig
  6. S02E06The Cleaner S02E06The Dead EndApril 28, 2023—A gamekeeper has been murdered in rural Wales, and it falls to Wicky to clean up the mess. He knows that whatever happens on the job, it’s i

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2024Aired 8.2Season avg
  1. S03E01The Cleaner S03E01The ReunionOctober 4, 2024 9.0Wicky finds himself on a job for an old childhood school friend, Justin, who it turns out has done rather well for himself.
  2. S03E02The Cleaner S03E02The BabyOctober 11, 2024 9.0Wicky attempts to clean a hut for a furious pregnant lady.
  3. S03E03The Cleaner S03E03Season's bestThe CommitteeOctober 18, 2024 10.0Wicky repeatedly offends a building full of elderly people. The committee will hear of this...
  4. S03E04The Cleaner S03E04The LighthouseOctober 25, 2024 5.0Wicky’s called to a remote lighthouse, where all is not what it seems. Will he survive seagulls, jellyfish, sea monsters and folk music?
  5. S03E05The Cleaner S03E05The HousekeeperNovember 1, 2024 8.0Wicky heads to a crumbling, stately home ruled by Mrs Barton, its despotic housekeeper.
  6. S03E06The Cleaner S03E06The WeddingNovember 8, 2024 8.0Wicky is called to a wedding and meets Brummie kingpin Bob Mammot, the King of Storage.

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Cast

Greg DaviesGreg DaviesPaul Wickstead

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