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Mrs Wilson

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unique1986 · 15/11/2018 11:39

Mrs Wilson starts 9pm on Tuesday 27th November on BBC One.

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unique1986 · 15/11/2018 11:41

Still a week or two away, but looks good!

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unique1986 · 23/11/2018 11:39

This starts on Tuesday :)

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TheGirlOnTheLanding · 23/11/2018 12:12

Ooh thanks for the heads up, this looks right up my street.

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unique1986 · 26/11/2018 11:03

Ruth Wilson is supposed to be really good in this.

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unique1986 · 27/11/2018 14:43

9pm Tonight Grin

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LoniceraJaponica · 27/11/2018 22:40

It was worth watching.

doubtthat · 04/12/2018 18:56

Loved it.

Oblomov18 · 04/12/2018 19:04

Enjoyed episode 1.

AndThereSaw · 05/12/2018 08:46

I keep crying this morning. Why is he such a little shit to her? Instead of marching in and being obnoxious, why doesn't he actually ask her instead of shouting in her face?
I'm so sad for her.

WindinTheWillowsLover · 05/12/2018 08:47

This is fabulous. More so given it's a true story with Ruth Wilson playing her grandmother!

Last night's episode with Keeley Hawes and Ruth Wilson confronting each other was top class acting and riveting to watch.

Really well done and am loving it.

WindinTheWillowsLover · 05/12/2018 08:48

@AndTheresaw- sorry but who do you mean? Are you on the right thread :)

longwayoff · 05/12/2018 10:11

This is excellent. Ruth Wilson, Keeley Hawes and co all good. A pleasure to watch.

AndThereSaw · 05/12/2018 10:35

WindinTheWillowsLover
Yes I am on the right thread. Sorry if too cryptic. I wasn't sure if spoilers were allowed but as someone has already mentioned the showdown I'll crack on.
George is a little shit and the fact that Nigel has gone along with it makes me so cross and very very sad for her. Who the F does he think he is speaking to his mother like that? She's just lost her husband. 'Father would want me to take control.' 'I went against what you asked and contacted the ministry.' 'I can't believe a word you say.' and worst of all 'I've found digs for Nigel as you haven't been yourself and I don't want him upset. So we'll be leaving you alone.'

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unique1986 · 05/12/2018 11:15

Loved it again last night.

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AndThereSaw · 05/12/2018 11:17

It's so good!

ViragoKnows · 05/12/2018 11:23

Who the F does he think he is speaking to his mother like that? She's just lost her husband. 'Father would want me to take control.' 'I went against what you asked and contacted the ministry.' 'I can't believe a word you say.' and worst of all 'I've found digs for Nigel as you haven't been yourself and I don't want him upset. So we'll be leaving you alone.'

I thought that scene was quite jarring and actually quite hard to believe.

I wondered whether they were trying to dramatise in one scene, a distancing between her and her boys that was caused by her post-bereavement choices (trying not to do a blatant spoiler!) but, IRL, happened over a much longer period of time. Its hard to represent a long, subtle drifting apart in a drama.

I just kept thinking how odd it must feel to be playing the part of your grandmother in a dysfunctional dynamic with your father and uncle.

WindinTheWillowsLover · 05/12/2018 12:27

I don't think George is necessarily a little shit. The way I saw it was that Alison has been cagey, keeping things from her sons and they aren't stupid. You could argue equally that she is being a shit for hiding stuff they as adult men have a right to know. They don't yet know what their father did, so they are acting on what they do know, which is their mother is being sly and hiding something from them. I felt her behaviour towards her sons, albeit to try to protect them from the truth, wasn't right and no better than Dorothy, who did the same thing.

WeaselsRising · 05/12/2018 12:45

George? The older boy is Gordon.

WindinTheWillowsLover · 05/12/2018 12:51

George? The older boy is Gordon.

I thought it was me who hadn't been paying attention!

The other thing that confused me- being a northerner not far from N Yorks, - is there is no such place (town or village) called Wensleydale.

It's an area including several villages. I don't think there is, or ever was, a railway station called Wensleydale. You'd get off at Hawes or Leyburn, or a nearby town then get a bus (even in the 1940s.)

RatherBeRiding · 05/12/2018 16:00

There is a very small village called Wensley - often referred to as the gateway to Wensleydale. Wensley also had a station on the Wensleydale railway. Perhaps some confusion on the part of the programme makers.

MsDidoTwite · 05/12/2018 18:06

So basically Alex Wilson was a fantasist shit of the first order? Dull.

WindinTheWillowsLover · 05/12/2018 19:56

*MsDidoTwite

no he wasn't a fantasist he actually lived the life. he worked for MI5 and MI6, wrote 24 novels, had 4 wives, never divorced any, and there is a suspicion some were 'work wives' perhaps as part of his cover as an agent.

It's far from dull; it's a true story and maybe you don't know the actress is the granddaughter of one wife?

ViragoKnows · 05/12/2018 19:58

He was a bit of a fantasist TBF. I read the book so im doubly aftaid of dropping spoilers, but you know what im referring to; he told some BIG lies.

AnyFucker · 05/12/2018 19:58

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CharltonLido73 · 05/12/2018 21:00

had 4 wives never divorced any

Well thanks for the spoiler, there...

Sad