Chris Barr/BBC/SHOWTIMEThis one might keep you up at night.
In Showtime’s dark psychological thriller The Woman in the Wall (Sundays beginning Jan. 21 at 9pm ET/PT), Ruth Wilson stars as Lorna Brady, a distraught woman who suffers from chronic sleepwalking and begins to have trouble recognizing what is real and what isn’t after she finds a woman dead in her home, with no recollection of how she got there or why.
Complicating things is Detective Colman Akande (Daryl McCormack), who is investigating the murder of a priest in Dublin, the trail of which leads him to Lorna and her sleepy Irish town.
The two murders, which are clearly connected, trigger a sequence of events that brings tragedies and past crimes to light.
Though the story is set in a fictional Irish town and around a fictional protagonist, it is based on the real-life history of the Magdalene laundries, convents where young women and teenagers were commonly sent if they got pregnant out of wedlock during the 18th century and well into the 1990s, when they were finally shut down. There, thousands of young women were forcibly separated from their babies and trapped into indentured servitude.
The two murders being investigated, while important, mostly serve as a scaffolding to explore the various burdens and forms trauma can take and the consequences of abuse.
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