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I watched this because of The Guardian review and I was not disappointed. I had previously seen a documentary about this case with Delia herself talking candidly about her traumatic experiences. She is an extraordinary person and is played brilliantly by Anna Maxwell-Martin. My only gripe is her accent. Unfortunately, this is clearly not her strong point but I just ignored this, as her acting is as always superb. I found my self binge-watching this series and needing to know that Delia is ok. She deserves to be recompensed for the failures of the judicial system in the initial investigation and subsequent lack of protection. I hope she is living a good life now.

When I started watching this, I was quite impressed. The first episode was really intriguing and exciting. I love crime-dramas, so I was looking forward to binging this series.

The acting is excellent, throughout and hats off to the cast for making this at all watchable. They do brilliantly with a very poor script. I just found the dialogue really cringy and some of the decisions made by the main characters were just not believable. The storyline overall is interesting but a bit of a mess to be honest. I think it has some good elements in it, reflecting the issues there are with racism, right-wing groups etc but I felt that it was trying to sit on the fence about where the blame lies.

That said, I felt empathy for the family throughout and that is all down to the acting. I hope to see the cast in something more worthy of them in the future.