This weekend, one dark Brit classic and two great HBO comedies to savour GlobeArts
. This weekend, there arrives a wonderful and uniquely sinister BBC drama, based on a story that is confounding because it is true. Also, two classic HBO comedies return. And that’s just old-school TV. If I told you what’s on the streaming services, we’d be here all day.slot in ages. Among its many merits is an extraordinary performance by star Ruth Wilson . What adds to the baleful bite of the story is the fact that she is playing her own grandmother, Alison.
The story opens in 1963 and Alison returns to her home in the suburbs of London, anxious to prepare a meal for her husband, an older man named Alec Wilson . While she bustles about in the kitchen Alec collapses and dies of a heart attack upstairs. In shock and in grief she remembers his instruction that she call a certain number if anything happened to him. She calls and a female voice says coolly, “That’s all we need from you.
Alison works directly for Major Wilson, a star of of the intelligence service because he’s tapped the phones of various embassies and can understand several languages. He also writes fiction books about spies and spying. “I just sit at my typewriter and make things up,” he says, making a declaration that will hang like a deep, dark cloud over the decades that follow. He also woos Alison, telling her he’s just become divorced.
A war is starting. There are air raids, great dangers and both Alison and Maj. Wilson must keep secrets. In this atmosphere, truths are malleable and perceptions tainted. It is decades before Alison realizes that her husband – if indeed they were ever legally married – conflated work with personal life and actually had several wives, mistresses and fathered children who knew nothing about each other. Under cover of intelligence work, he shaped a twisted web of personal relationships.
The fact that actor Ruth Wilson’s grandmother lived through this experience adds a piercing kind of poignancy to what is, in its bones, a story about the gap between official truths and personal reality.What adds to the baleful bite of the story is the fact that Wilson is playing her own grandmother, Alison. is even more darkly funny and shrewd than the first, Emmy-winning season was.
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