This episode showcases an assault victims journey through the aftermath of her trauma, but instead of her being on the stand as a witness / victim / character witness for her attackers trial she is the one in the dock !
As events unfold it hinders the core issue with victim blaming, and dodging the actual reason for brenda being on trial, which would be fine had the writer stuck the landing with brenda being 'guilty' of anything even remotely trial worthy but no she was angry, drunk one night and sent one threatening tweet to her attacks page, which unfortunatly for her was the last straw for her new friend tess ( who has her own assault trauma btw) and so tess carried out the threat??
Only good thing from this convoluted episode is the acting and direction.
Side note: I reckon tess' trial would have been just as compelling if not more so, as it would still have played out mostly the same but the end result would have made more sense.
As events unfold it hinders the core issue with victim blaming, and dodging the actual reason for brenda being on trial, which would be fine had the writer stuck the landing with brenda being 'guilty' of anything even remotely trial worthy but no she was angry, drunk one night and sent one threatening tweet to her attacks page, which unfortunatly for her was the last straw for her new friend tess ( who has her own assault trauma btw) and so tess carried out the threat??
Only good thing from this convoluted episode is the acting and direction.
Side note: I reckon tess' trial would have been just as compelling if not more so, as it would still have played out mostly the same but the end result would have made more sense.
