TV Review: The Woman in the Wall makes fun of the horrors of the Magdalene laundries

"If you’re going to make a show about an open wound in Irish society, don’t fold in a murder-mystery/Father Ted/David Lynch tribute compilation."
TV Review: The Woman in the Wall makes fun of the horrors of the Magdalene laundries

Ruth Wilson as Lorna Brady in The Woman In The Wall.

You don’t want comedy cops in a drama about the Magdalene laundries.

In The Woman in the Wall (BBC One and iPlayer), when a detective patiently explains to his mother that Columbo wasn’t a whodunnit because they showed us who did the murder at the start, it feels tone-deaf. 

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