“She treats you like some broken thing and you’re not. Why are Theresa and Helen so close, and the former so tolerant of the latter’s overbearing attitude (“She drowns you,” says Fraser. It’s a nicely atmospheric, evocative first hour that plants lots of seeds that soon begin to take root and grow. The kind of place where nothing goes wrong?. When she picks them up, she finds them bickering and lobbing something in the bin – an event that takes on new significance when their classmate Alex is reported missing and a police search for him begins. Against Theresa’s wishes, Fraser lets Ben and Eva go to the park alone. The latter include her vivacious sister – and nextdoor neighbour – Helen (Rachael Stirling), the headteacher of the local primary school, her colourless husband David (Peter McDonald), their daughter Eva (Amelie Bea Smith), Theresa’s own son Ben (Fraser Holmes) and Fraser’s teenage daughter Georgina (Tia May Watts). It’s done now”) is as potent as the sunshine Fraser and other family members bask in outside. The silent resentment radiating from her as she concocts a careful salad (“It’s fine. In ITV’s new four-part thriller, we first meet Theresa doing all the work as others enjoy a meal and a bright summer’s day in the garden. Or, as Fraser’s brother and their current house guest Eddie (Ken Nwosu) sees it, “the perfect place for paedophiles. It is the kind of leafy, affluent enclave that promises nothing can really go wrong within its moneyed embrace. Now we have Anna Maxwell Martin quietly seething and holding back oceans as Theresa, partner of Fraser (Rhashan Stone), mother of one and resident of Hollington Drive.
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And the recent series of I Am … gave us, in Suranne Jones’s Victoria and Lesley Manville’s Maria, pitch-perfect models of the choking resentments that fester over a lifetime of trying to live within particularly female constraints. The pandemic-set two-hander Together, starring Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy, gave absolutely equal weight and specificity to the unravelling couple’s furious miseries. Examples include Annie Murphy as Allison in Kevin Can F*ck Himself, a show that deliberately subverts the sitcom wife role and allows Murphy to give a tremendous portrait of a woman on the edge. First, in terms of being present at all, and second in terms of precision.
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That is the depiction in TV drama of female – usually marital, for reasons we’ll gloss over here but send me an SAE if you want my full monograph – rage. I am noticing a small but definite improvement in one thing (and one thing only – have you seen the world lately?).
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