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Cat Jones, the writer of The Jetty (BBC1), has ladled many traditional ingredients into what on the face of it is yet another drama about a missing teenage girl. But her brew is pleasingly laced with something more socially urgent: the slippery problem of consent and the sexualisation of teenage girls.
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The Jetty isn’t Happy Valley, but it is much, much closer to it than you might have expected.
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The jumps between the past and present can be jarring (for a while I didn’t even realise the scenes with Amy and Caitlin had gone back in time). But all of that is easily forgotten when the story itself is so compulsive.