At first the idea of seeing Victoria Wood in a drama seems wrong, but looking at her biography, she was a playwright before she started writing comedy shows and performing stand up.
The drama follows the life of an ordinary housewife in a shipbuilding town during WWII, and how she is coping with a depression ("nerves"). We encounter much that we expect with a wartime drama, a look at the mechanics of the home front blackouts, blitzes, Andersons versus Morrisons, potential gas attacks and sons going to war.
The drama also shows how a woman comes to terms with her oppression under her husband and her emancipation through volunteer work, and the incumbent committee politics and class strata therein.
David Threlfall should be admired for his soft voiced father figure. I'm more used to seeing his comic roles, but he does drama well (and action in "The Marksman").
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