Kiri, Channel4, Wed 10th Jan

[southeastdweller]

Anyone else looking forward to this? The writer also wrote the recent Robbie Coltrane drama, National Treasure, and Sarah Lancashire is always superb.

www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-10-31/kiri-channel-4-trailer/

So if it's the first one I guess they chose to adopt her so that does make more sense.

I thought SL character was rude and dismissive to the adopters/carers.

The part when she was staring in the car, and her demeanour on the stairs when SL was there to collect Kiri was strange.

Maybe she was just meant to be nervous about Kiri going on unsupervised visit.

Am I the only person who thought the sound quality was terrible? All of us watching here struggled to tell what they were saying at times, especially SL. Lots of mumbling lines.
I am sure my hearing is okay but it really spoils things for me.

purpleme12 "Italiangreyhound so are you saying that the foster parents wanted to adopt her but then social services decided she was to be adopted by the grandparents?"

No, she was being fostered by the white couple, and they had applied to adopt her. At 9 she would be very unlikely to be adopted by anyone else so social services would probably have been quite positive about the adoption (IMHO). Trans racial adoption does happen but I've no idea how common it is.

The grandfather is her biological grandfather (the father or her biological father. His wife is not the child's biological grandmother.) Sometimes grandparents are given the chance to have direct contact with children who are adopted. I think this is quite rare but I've heard of it once in real life.

The implication here is that because the child is black and the adoptive family are white this visiting between child and grandparent is really important. They wanted to start the unsupervised visiting between child and grandfather (and step-grandmother) before the adoption order was made. The belief was that the grandfather was no contact with his son *Kiri's dad) but I did feel very sleepy in it, so I may have missed something!

I thought she was meant to be familiar/ confident with them rather than dismissive.

Oh right I thought the grandparents were adopting her and that was why they were having contact in readiness for the being adopted! How confusing!

I think the 'choosing her' bt is what adopters say about their children. But they also had a birth child who they did not 'choose'.

We have both and I'd not personally use that language of we chose you. I have said something like, the social workers thought we would be the right parents for you and we are really happy about that, or words to that affect.

Shit line manager, I felt very sorry for the social worker and all the cases that would need to be spread to other Sw whilst she was on paid leave.

And yes to the poor dog left in the car!

Marking place. Also anxious about the dog. Looking forward to the next one.

I think the dog will be significant. The fact she did not go into the house because of the dog.

I also think having a dog with you at work is ridiculous. If she was transporting children by car it could be an issue if they were allergic or just scared of dogs.

Stargazer I’m finding I have to have the subtitles on with more and more programmes recently. Maybe my hearing is going or maybe its the sound quality just being awful. Not sure.

Italian i didn't realise the grandmother was not biologically related to Kiri I must have missed that. I was wondering if each of the four episodes will be from a different perspective, next one could be from the foster carers point of view perhaps, will have to wait and see. As a foster parent myself I really hope they don't turn out to be nuts.

I confess to putting the subtitles on in the end.

Sureitsgrand they clearly didn't want the unsupervised contact going ahead but their views had been dismissed. That's how I saw it and why I thought she was dismissive. Unsupervised direct contact even post order would be unlikely. Would always be a worker there.

I’d LOVE to take my dog to work with me.

I think hound has a point and the dog will be significant.

And hopefully survive a night locked in the car

I also thin’ the line manager will prey on signing paperwork off because she trusted the SW and didn’t feel the need to read before signing. Totally throwing her under the bus.

I think SL herself was unsure about the unsupervised contact too though because when she got in the car after drop off she looked worried and then turned to the dog and said “don’t you start, it’ll be fine” so there obviously was some trepidation there in her part even before it happened.

Surprised to see Sue Johnston as SL’s mother, hardly recognised her with dark hair.

deadringer I agree hope it is not foster carers and as adopter with birth child hope it is not the foster carers' son.

Did not recognise Sue Johnson.

I think it's quite confusing who wanted what/said what etc before the main events as we just do not know.

Maybe it’s supposed to be confusing to us at this point. Perhaps it’s deliberate that we are so unsure about the circumstances:

@DonnyAndVladSittingInATree agree
Night all.

I like it so far, love the dog, not sure how it’s going to pan out over the next three weeks.

My bet's on the grandfather.