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Critic Reviews
Radio TimesNov 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
While the red-raw anguish and anger of Lorna and the other women remains front and centre, the narrative never feels overwhelmed by the weight of their loss, courtesy of a genre-hopping style that cycles through psychological thriller, comedy, horror and murder mystery. .... One of the year's most daring and best.
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Jan 16, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If in its back end the series devolves into a more formulaic whodunit and tale of Catholic Church coverups, the fine cast keeps you emotionally engaged and the filmmaking is fairly lush, with Harry Wootliff and Rachna Suri alternating directing duties on the six-episode season.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It’s this overplaying of the narrative hand, not to mention the risibly trowelled-on gothic melodrama (at one point, Lorna scurries around with an axe), that should be the undoing of The Woman in the Wall. It’s saved by explosive arthouse brio and that atomising central performance. Wilson is just so good in this: you could watch her unravel for ever.
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Jan 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Murtaugh, greatly abetted by Wilson, balances the heaviness of his material with a humor and a lightness of spirit that make “The Woman in the Wall” a brisk, engaging production. .... Wilson’s Irish accent sounds like a work in progress. Her performance is crackerjack straight through, though.
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Jan 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It’s clear Lorna is on the precipice of sanity, and a little of that kind of where-are-we unreality goes a long way. Still, I liked everything that wasn’t presented in a haze, and, overall, I was riveted to the miniseries. The uncompromising approach to the horrors committed by people of God, and the women who were victimized by them, is something to see, and something to remember.
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Jan 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The whole cast is solid—Frances Tomelty is particularly fearsome as the dreaded Sister Eileen—and unlike many series, "The Woman in the Wall" engages more and more as it informs and instructs, tightening its grip on the viewer's neck and moving him toward the edge of his seat, as if to correct his posture.
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Jan 16, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There are times, particularly in its tremulously hopeful finale, when the urgency of the show’s themes threatens to overwhelm its plot. But at its most effective, The Woman in the Wall is savvy enough to know that what will keep its message alive long after the end credits (set to a previously unreleased track by real-life Magdalene survivor Sinéad O’Connor) is a truly compelling story.
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Jan 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Woman in the Wall isn’t particularly subtle about its themes or the larger messages it wants viewers to take away from it. (It’s unfortunate how timely these conversations about female bodily autonomy remain today, is all I’m saying.) Nor is it always a particularly easy watch. But whether you take it as a lesson, a cautionary tale, or something in between, at its core is a truth that deserves to be heard.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 25, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While the crime storyline is resolved a bit too tidily, the series is most passionate about finding justice and peace for the women like Lorna who have spent their adult lives under a cloud of grief and unresolved shame. [29 Jan - 18 Feb 2024, p.7]
The Daily BeastJan 22, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It takes a few head-scratching plot shortcuts and is notably reliant on that inevitable trope of trauma-informed serial television, the character who is too emotionally constipated to reveal information that would hasten the resolution of the plot before the allotted six episodes.
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ColliderJan 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Nothing feels finished in The Woman in the Wall, like a half-edited draft gone to print instead of a fully-formed piece of work. It’s as dissatisfying as any of the many other police procedurals cranked out by networks and streamers by the dozen, and not worth the price of admission.
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