[Cherie]

Anyone watch it? Nice to have a drama to watch on a Friday night for a change. Not a bad opening, Part 1 of 3.

[lostalex]

i saw it on the torrent site and i was like wtf is this? I figured it was one of those documentary food shows about some women working at an ice cream shop or something. What's it about?

[Cherie]

Lorraine Burroughs (Lip Service, Fast Girls) plays Serena Gorringe, a woman whose life was turned upside down at 16, after she entered into a relationship with her teacher. The older man manipulated and abused her. He brought another vulnerable teen into his sordid love triangle – 18-year-old Poppy Carlisle. One fateful night, the teacher is stabbed. Poppy goes down for murder and Serena is acquitted. 17 years later, Poppy - played by Jodhi May (The Scapegoat, Strike Back) – is released. Having spent much of her adult life in jail for a crime she believes she didn’t commit, she is out to find Serena and bring clarity to the sequence of events that happened on that hazy night back in 1995.

The drama is shot under two time lines: flashbacks from the past that gradually piece together what happened to the two girls and the lives of the girls in the present day, now that they are women. The present sees Serena happily married with a doting husband and a teen daughter. She leads an almost idyllic life in Leeds, until she is forced back to her hometown when her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Meanwhile, Poppy has been released from prison and prefers to spend her time in her grandmother’s beach hut than at home with her mother and angst-ridden stepfather. We see Serena trying to conceal the truth of what happened to her from her family, although things are starting to seep out in her erratic behaviour. Poppy is still stuck in the past, wanting to get answers, still listening to the same music from 1995. It’s something actress Jodhi May portrays very skillfully in her performance. It’s unfortunate that the convincing portrayals from the lead roles don’t always trickle out to the peripheral cast, whose acting skills aren’t always up to scratch.

Despite the shortcomings in the acting department, the story is an intriguing and compelling one – one of murder, sexual abuse and mind manipulation. How will these two women collide now that Poppy is out? How will they reconcile the past? And what really did happen on that night in 1995? The issue of wrongful conviction is in doubt all the way through the first episode – leaving you waiting for the next installment to bring more answers.


That's the blurb about it

[lostalex]

Oh, sounds heavy. Maybe a bit too heavy for me.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Anyone watch it? Nice to have a drama to watch on a Friday night for a change. Not a bad opening, Part 1 of 3.

I had it on Cherie,but couldn't watch it properly,I kept getting disturbed,but it does look very good,I will catch up with and discuss as I was looking forward to this.

[Vicky.]

Sounds quite interesting..will probably wait until all 3 parts are available though before watching it as I get way to impatient when I have to wait weeks inbetween

[Princess]

I'm a bit dubious about it because the author who wrote the book it's based on doesn't seem to like the adaption at all or think it's true to the book and I really loved the book.