This isn’t something I planned for this blog, but did anyone actually watch the first two episodes of Prisoners Wives, Tuesdays at 9pm on BBC1? I don’t watch much TV and had recorded this and sat down to watch the first episode quite late last night and ended up staying up very late to watch the second episode as well. I thought it was a really well written, well made piece of drama. It tells the stories of 4 women whose husband, partner or son is in prison for a variety of crimes. The second episode was predominantly about Franny (pictured above) played by Polly Walker, whose life has come crumbling down around her as the bailiffs come in to recover the profits of crime, while she tries to maintain some semblance of normality for her two children. What I particularly liked about it was that all the women were coping with the same emotions and those emotions aren’t prejudiced to any class, colour or age. All those left on the outside are punished for the crimes of the ones they love. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely be watching the rest of the series.
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