THE WOMAN IN THE WALL. BBC 1 sun 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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this is a 6 part drama

1 is shown sun and then 2 on the monday

3456 the following 4 Sundays

it’s will no doubt be on iPlayer but try and not binge lovely people in my phone 😂😂😂

this will be tv paced

Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack are teaming up for a gripping new BBC drama, which is inspired by the horrifying revelations around Ireland's Magdalene Laundries.

The Woman In The Wall follows the horrors experienced by Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson) is a woman from the small, fictional Irish town of Kilkinure, who wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house.

Lorna is chilled to the core as she has no idea who the dead woman is or if she could even be responsible for the apparent murder herself. This is a deadly possibility because Lorna suffers from extreme bouts of sleepwalking, which started around the time she was ripped from her life at the age of 15 and incarcerated in the Kilkinure Convent.

The Woman in the Wall follows Lorna Brady (Wilson), a woman who was incarcerated in a convent from a young age, where she traumatically gave birth – only to have the baby taken away from her to whereabouts unknown.

The awful treatment she endured continues to impact her life, causing extreme bouts of sleepwalking that end with her waking up in strange places with no memory of how she got there.

While her specific story is a work of fiction, the Magdalene Laundries were very real and are thought to have blighted the lives of tens of thousands of women.

Although their history dates back further, more is known about the practices of these institutions in the 20th century, where inmates entered via the criminal justice system, reformatory schools and the Health and Social Services sector.

Once inside, they would have to carry out unpaid labour, while many former inmates have reported being abused.

Magdalene Laundries became the subject of a media scandal in the 1990s, when a mass grave holding 155 bodies was discovered on the former grounds of one such institution in Drumcondra, Dublin.

Every parent has had that moment where we lose sight of our child, the sinking, sickening feeling one gets. I imagine all the women in the World forced to give up their children. I imagine these women carrying that sinking, sickening feeling for the rest of their life.

Lorna's child will be 25 now if she's still alive, as this series is set in 2015 and I'm sure, but will stand to be corrected, that she gave birth to Agnes, her daughter, in 1985. I missed the birth date of Colman.

The fall of Colman through to the tunnel was so scary, I could barely watch it. Stuff of nightmares, which he clearly suffered as a child.

The candles being lit was a lovely gesture, but I worried the house might burn down.

That was a great episode last night. Not sure if nice Niamh has a sinister side to her, certainly the older man pressing for the inquiry will hide some things that are controversial and implicate those perpetrators still alive.

Good to see Lorna getting stronger and more determined.

1985 to 2015 so the daughter will be 30.

Of course! Thanks @Faytella2020

Could the one pretending to be aoife daughter be her daughter Agnes

I thought that too @Blondeshavemorefun but wouldn't that be too obvious?

I watched e3 and 4 last night and was surprised at how harrowing I found it, especially episode 4.

Those candles, Colman's mum telling him about the reject room and Lorna's encounter with the nun.

This episode was as harrowing as the earlier ones . The man running the group [Coyle ? ] I'm not so sure of his good intentions .

A lot is filmed in the semi dark which increases the atmosphere , e,g., the scene with Sister Eileen was scary .

It's not really working for me. Parts are certainly moving and effective, but the schlocky stuff, loud sound-track, RW's scenery chewing, and prowling around at night brandishing an axe like a distaff Jack Nicolson... 😀Coyle is clearly a wrongmo, and Niamh looks pretty dodge too. And Sister Eileen is alone in that seemingly deserted convent?? I felt sorry for Colman's not-mum.

Anyone else watched white lotus? This programme has nearly the same music!

Don’t leave, @CaptainMyCaptain, I really enjoy your posts (here and on the Archers thread).

But not the weird a Capella!

If the programme really wanted to go for schmaltz, they could have Colman be Amy or Lorna’s child…

I thought Niamh was getting suspicious of the bloke and his vagueness, delays.

Yes seen both lotus and roll on s3

Yes forgot to mention the reject room

What an awful phrase

For blacks - gypsy - travellers and did they mention special needs as well

For all the unwanted babies

I just wanted to give a huge hug to the policeman

I hope he finds his birth mum

And is a bit nicer to his adopted mum

She chose him

I also thought Aoife’s “daughter” would turn out to be Lorna’s daughter 🤨 And all the candles were making me very nervous!

I’m surprised that Colman was adopted under his real name. Wouldn’t it make more sense to give the children new names on adoption to create a greater distance from their old identities?

Could Amy be responsible for Aoife’s death? They could have got into a struggle over the information Aoife had, we know Amy takes cocaine which might make her violent and she accidentally kills Aoife?

I was nervous too about all the candles. I was afraid Lorna and Michael would be burned in a fire.

I'm on episode 2 and finding it a bit slow, although Ruth Wilson is amazing. Is it worth persevering with?

Interesting comment by Colman's adoptive mother

We thought they were Christians

Very telling

It’s so harrowing. So well acted.

Yes I thought there was going to be a fire when she lit the first one then noticed the bag and it clicked for her to check all the other certificates

I love candles. I have lots. But I don't have 297/8 of them

I kept falling asleep watching this episode so I might have missed some finer detail.

As said above, why was Colman adopted under his birth name given that he was meant to be dead. If he had a death certificate then how was he adopted? Does he have a birth certificate? He would have needed to provide proof of ID to join the police, surely.

It does.

Ruth Wilson is great in the role, but she usually is whatever she does, IMO.

Yes! Bloody get on with it! Jeez it’s really slow with all the dream / hallucination scenes! Get on with the story!