Well we thought Jessica's debut worked well, from the self-help tapes' ironic relationship to the action - and the way its music (by Luke Abbott) swells into the main story - to the twisty nature of the story itself, as Mum Jessica Hynes has to face that her daughter Sennia Nanua is being bullied, by the daughter of an ex school acquaintance. Loved the Blow Upish moment where the two mums confront each other through the wind in the leaves.
Jessica also learns to box, with Cathy Tyson teaching - but we were somewhat confused as to how this relates to the main story, which is about the way parental abuse filters down into the kids. Thus we have Jessica's back story with parents Anita Dobson and Christopher Fairbank (who was not in Porridge) and the bully Liv Hill (who's fabulous) and her alcoholic mum Rhona Mitra. With Sally Phillips, Shaun Parkes.
DP Ryan Eddlestone, editor Anna Dick.
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