Once again Sarah Lancaster turns in a masterclass performance. How an sheplumb such depths and yet live a normal life. This time all unravelling raw emotion, her devastation painful to watch. She is wonderful.A grim tale well told by a wonderful ensemble cast. Finn in episode 4 in particular provided a nuanced outstanding performance. He is a talent, we will see more of him I hope. all the cast were excellent. I was disappointed by the ambiguous ending, was justice served?However I found the entire serious gripping and ultimately very sad.

I watched after seeing the advertisements on Hulu. I love a good mystery/thriller. However, this is a terrible show. The little black girl is murdered and her biological father, who is innocent, is automatically thrown in jail. The one who actually committed the crime, the foster dad, goes unpunished and free. Little girl gets no justice and neither does the family of her biological dad. This is a terrible series.

Kiri tells the taught story of the murder of a girl in foster care. In addition to a mystery - who did it the deed? - there is also a persistent theme about the inhumanity of modern insitutions, and how a culture of accountability leads to a focus on competence in the narrowest of senses, a determination to keep control of the narrative, and a fundamental lack of empathy for those who are nominally served. It feels horrific and believable, but it's also one of those stories that would be overwhelmingly powerful if true. After all, even Harry Potter had to deal with Dolores Umbridge; the fact that a certain type of monster is a well-estanblished trope is not necessarily an acccurate reflection of the state of the world. Judged purely as drama, it suffers from the fact that its protagonists are sympathetic only to the extent that they are victims; there's little nuance in its portrait of power. Sarah Lancashire, playing a scapegoated social worker, is as excellent as you would expect; Lia Williams is also good, albeit in a somewhat contrived role. It's far from a bad series - but it's too schematic to have the full emotional impact to which it aspires.

Another magnificent performance from the peerless Sarah Lancashire. Finn Bennett who played the son Si, the tortured, confused, unloved, observant, awkward teenager who knew that his father had murdered Kiri but chose not to turn him in, preferring to punish him by condemning him to live alone with his bitter, twisted, unfaithful liar of a wife while he was dumped at an expensive boarding school to cure him of his bitterness. The drama ended suddenly, unsatisfyingly in a way, we were guessing what the outcome of the trial would be, might Si decide to contact the police and tell them the truth or would he protect his mother from prosecution for perverting the course of justice. We will nevr know, but one this is certain, our Social Service system is broken, and their methods of placing and protecting children in the care system needs to change, to allow foster carers and adopters to know the history of the damaged children they hope to provide a loving, stable family.