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I really liked the ending and I was SO relieved that Cassie decided not to report what she had discovered, Sunny backed her up, and Saira's husband supported her in the end. I also found it SO cathartic to see Marion's smug sister completely turn on her mother and SCREAM at her.
However, I had a few problems with the story and wonder if there's something I'm missing.
So they already knew that Colin had been in a specific psychiatric hospital. However, in spite of the fact they accessed Saira's medical records to know that David Walker had assaulted her while she was working as a prostitute, it wasn't recorded anywhere in there that she had been there, too? Nobody during the incredibly long search for what might've connected the three remembered the name of a psychiatric hospital on Saira's record? Or do they not keep a note of name(s) and that stuff?
That's my only real plot problem, but I did feel like too much time was probably spent on red herrings, like Colin's rape of Maria. Brilliantly acted though Colin's reaction to her false accusation was, I felt they could've/should've developed that plot thread more as they were going to reveal he was also a victim of sexual abuse.
I was also convinced that Marion's father was David's abuser. I also went through periods where I briefly suspected Marion's mother of being David's abuser or abusing Marion.
It annoyed me, tbh, that they didn't allude to her father's manner of death (unless I missed something) until Cassie and Sunny needed to know it. I thought the three actors they had play the killers (Colin, Saira, and Marion) were damn great so I would've liked it if they'd had more development. They seemed to "waste" a lot of time on the red herring subplots (like Flo's stepfather and Zoe) and while I know they were important, it made me feel a bit :/ about some of the other aspects.
Like the whole Colin, a gay man, is raped as a child by a man and accused of rape by a woman thing, and Marion's bisexuality/affair with the IRA woman. Not to mention the sort of brief-pursuit-of-->complete-abandonment-of David Walker's abuser. I know Walker was an irredeemable piece of scum (they made that point often enough), but did it not matter to Cassie or Sunny who had abused him? Why was that idea never really pursued if it all boiled down to abuse? Idk, I felt like they sort of threw that idea out at the audience then ditched it.
Still, despite my essay here - 
- I enjoyed the whole series and was nearly crying at Marion and Colin's monologues about their abuse. Strong stuff.