Oh,
and in addition to the actors I mentioned yesterday? This episode features a young Jonny Lee
Miller doing some absolutely top-notch work.
I love Britain.
And
PC. Oh, wow. Vera struggles throughout the episode with
the thought of opening up to the police, terrified of what she knows and of
what will be done to her if she tells.
PC is superb from start to finish, but there's a heartbreaking scene
near the end that is pure master class.
It makes me shiver a little just to think about it.
On
a side note – whenever I watch something involving transpeople, I'm hyper-aware
of pronoun usage. A few interesting
things to report here. First, Jane is
the only officer that almost always addresses Vera by her preferred name. However, when speaking with her colleagues,
she generally refers to Vera by her birth name and uses male pronouns. I wonder why that is. Does she only use the male designators because
of how the other officers would otherwise react? Does she personally think of Vera as male but
uses her preferred name out of respect when questioning her? Is calling her “Vera” just a means of earning
her trust and getting her to open up?
The inconsistency is an intriguing choice.
Also,
there's a scene in which Vera refers to a transgirl as a he, which raised up
immediate red flags for me. I can't
imagine that she wouldn't have used female pronouns, even if the girl hadn't
begun to transition yet – bit of uninformed writing there.
The
last word on both Prime Suspect installments.
Accent
Watch
I'm
gonna go with RP. There's a scene where
Vera is talking with a friend, and her friend's extremely Northern accent
clinched it for me; she just doesn't talk like that.
Recommend?
In
General
– Yes. Very well-plotted mystery,
and Helen Mirren does no wrong.
PC-wise –
Definitely. Just definitely.
Warnings
Some additions from yesterday. This episode has a lot of discussion of
sexual abuse against minors, including a couple of difficult scenes recounting
specific abuses. There's also some S
& M gear, and a few characters attempting self-harm (not in an S & M
way.)
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