I haven't seen such a powerful drama for a long time.
Covered my mid to late teenage years, (Sheffield) and I was surprised how unsettled at a primal level I felt watching this. The flashback emotions were visceral re: walking home alone at night, your neck being on a swivel and now realising, decades later that you never lost that habit. (Once at a bus stop, dark, a couple of years later, reflexively turned and punched a bloke who had just tapped me on the shoulder to ask if the bus was due!)
That probably increased my appreciation of this series, nonetheless the acting is top class, the atmospheric accuracy of the time depicted and the environment, draws around you and lays bare the pervading misogyny and female social, political, domestic and personal fetterment.
It masterfully illustrates how egregious the attitude to sex worker women was and how pervasive it was even to me. Walking up a steep hilly field at night on my lonesome, swivelling neck when a chilling thought came into my head...'I might know, but he won't know, that I'm not a prostitute'...Considering the era, the limited access to media, social communicative tools etc; for a young teenage mind to be so influenced is a shocking realisation and this drama exposes that social history so competently.
I felt I was watching the whole series holding my breath. It is a complete series, masterfully made.
Covered my mid to late teenage years, (Sheffield) and I was surprised how unsettled at a primal level I felt watching this. The flashback emotions were visceral re: walking home alone at night, your neck being on a swivel and now realising, decades later that you never lost that habit. (Once at a bus stop, dark, a couple of years later, reflexively turned and punched a bloke who had just tapped me on the shoulder to ask if the bus was due!)
That probably increased my appreciation of this series, nonetheless the acting is top class, the atmospheric accuracy of the time depicted and the environment, draws around you and lays bare the pervading misogyny and female social, political, domestic and personal fetterment.
It masterfully illustrates how egregious the attitude to sex worker women was and how pervasive it was even to me. Walking up a steep hilly field at night on my lonesome, swivelling neck when a chilling thought came into my head...'I might know, but he won't know, that I'm not a prostitute'...Considering the era, the limited access to media, social communicative tools etc; for a young teenage mind to be so influenced is a shocking realisation and this drama exposes that social history so competently.
I felt I was watching the whole series holding my breath. It is a complete series, masterfully made.