Review of The Way

I know there are mixed reviews about this programme but I personally loved it. It starts with a tragic incident in a steelworks in Port Talbot and the repercussions of it shapes the decisions made by management to use it as an excuse to shut down the factory. A working class community tired of being at the lower end of the pecking order, they decide to strike and take to the streets in protest. This leads to an increased police presence and private security firms being drafted in. Soon the whole of Wales is under martial law and the borders closed. One family the Driscolls are at the centre of the tale with son Owen being singled out as the ringleader of the riots. These security firms use predictive policing and algorithms, to be able to preempt those who will cause trouble in future. The Driscolls have to go on the run, leaving the place they have called home for generations, but they discover that home isn't a place but the people you are with. Ultimately it's a damning indictment of Tory Britain, the decimation of the right to protest and technology and a tale of how the days when life was so much simpler was, more importantly, better.