This was a quite brilliantly portrayed drama by the BBC. Everything was in play from the claustrophobic morality of post war Britain, the ultimate consequence of war on individual lives and the life choices made by circumstance that had ramifications on an entire family.
The acting was nuanced showing the conflicted emotions, just how would someone react to discovering they had been the third victim of a serial bigamist. The script was tight and well structured and tried desperately to arrive at a moral standpoint.
The problem with this drama lies with its ultimate truths, there were three women who had been lied to for decades, there were no less that six illegitimate children who were inadequately provided for, and three tawdry affairs undertaken without a care for the devastation this would leave when the truth came out.
There could be no redemptive conclusion to this sorry tale and suggesting that some good may come out of such personal tragedy by way of gaining an extended family doesn't cut it.
This distasteful story was very memorable and moving but just could not rise above its subject matter.
The acting was nuanced showing the conflicted emotions, just how would someone react to discovering they had been the third victim of a serial bigamist. The script was tight and well structured and tried desperately to arrive at a moral standpoint.
The problem with this drama lies with its ultimate truths, there were three women who had been lied to for decades, there were no less that six illegitimate children who were inadequately provided for, and three tawdry affairs undertaken without a care for the devastation this would leave when the truth came out.
There could be no redemptive conclusion to this sorry tale and suggesting that some good may come out of such personal tragedy by way of gaining an extended family doesn't cut it.
This distasteful story was very memorable and moving but just could not rise above its subject matter.