Episode three of this excellent drama wasn’t quite as frenetic nor edge-of-your-seat as the previous two have been, but it didn’t make it any less riveting.

When we joined last night’s episode, a few months had passed and Juliet went into labour within minutes of the show starting, but not before one of the male prison warders made an overtly and rather gross pass at her, salaciously rubbing her distended and heavy-with-child stomach.

Perhaps it was that frightening incident that brought on the premature birth of Juliet’s baby girl, but the baby was born fit and well. I don’t know if Maxine Peake did an hour on a treadmill or something to prepare for the birth scene, but as she cradled the baby, Juliet’s newborn, she had the true look of a woman who’s just been through childbirth. The woman is a chameleon… Read more & comment »