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."

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.