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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Oh right. I thought she had perhaps committed some sort of crime and that was the reason for the series.
Looking closer it's an intelligence murder mystery thing. |
It's astonishing the difference that one word can make to how a TV miniseries can sound!
The story follows a woman, the titular Mrs Alison Wilson (Ruth Wilson), whose husband, Alec (Iain Glen), dies of a heart attack and she is shortly visited by someone about the same age who introduces herself as Mrs Wilson and says she was married to Alec. The timeline moves around from the second world war to the mid-1960s as Alison's relationship with her sons becomes increasingly strained and the information she uncovers about Alec puts pressure on her post around her.
It's quite hard to classify because it isn't a thriller like
Bodyguard,
Killing Eve, or
The Night Manager, nor a
War and Peace or
Dickensian-style period drama. If anything, it's more of an understated family drama, but one with espionage as a backdrop. If anything, it's more like Mike Leigh's
Secrets and Lies in terms of the impact that one person's secrets can have on everyone around them.