The week in TV The Cure; Responsible Child; Sticks and Stones; Shrill – review
over 5 years in The guardian
Subtlety was in short supply both in the retelling of the Mid Staffordshire hospital crisis and the story of a 12-year-old put on trial for killing his stepfather
The Cure (Channel 4) | All 4Responsible Child (BBC Two) | iPlayerSticks and Stones (ITV) | ITV HubShrill (BBC Three) | iPlayer
Toxically lazy healthcare and pompous management putting profit before lives… bullying worthy of the Bullingdon Club… bad and stupid laws: it was almost as if the entire week’s dramas/docudramas were originally scheduled to land about three weeks before the election. What a difference it might have made. In Scotland, Labour might even have managed to have scraped a higher share of the polling than before women got the vote. Continue reading...
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