'I did not write it for myself' you will recall Lennie said about this - odd then that the character's name Nelly is sort of an anagram of Lennie.
Director Jim Loach is Ken's son and episode 1 is dedicated to Tony Garnett, who died in 2020.
A rather unnecessarily complex structure across the first three episodes had me wondering if I was watching The Father again. The story continues - Nelly is still looking for his kid, manages to help another, Grace, played by Olive Grey. Then the paedo who auctioned the girls (Ade Edmondson) is found dead.. Was it his wife, Lesley Manville?
Nelly's pub regulars are still around: Stephen Graham, Kerry Godliman, Alice Feetham, Thomas Coombes, Camilla Beeput, Jason Flemyng and Susan Lynch (Unforgotten, Apple Tree Yard, Great Expectations, Someone Else, Cracker).
Strong stuff, good in the way it looks at the two girls and how they respond to being freed - Grace is angry, voluble, volatile; Jody is initially catatonic. It isn't sentimental.
Why Nelly doesn't just tell the police where abuser Scottish Paul is, rather than try and confront him, I suppose is just down to the character, but the episode where he has to attend his daughter's interview and help the other girls' police appearance at the same time is mad - he should have just asked one of them to postpone. It points to an inevitable third season.
Editors Ben Drury and Sofie Alonzi (last three)
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