User Reviews

My word it is like watching a different show. It is almost good, shame it took five episodes to get here.

This was mainly straightforward until the end. Detective Colman Akande and Lorna Brady team up to find out what happened to the children born in the Magdalene launderies.

The babies were meant to be dead but the death certificates are forged. Lorna finds Clemence's now grown up daughter. She knows she had been adopted, that her natural mother could not care for her, left her starving.

More shockingly Akande and Lorna discover that the church were trading in babies. The children were not adopted, they paid thousands of pounds for them. This is confirmed by Akande's adopted mother, it was disguised as a donation.

Parallel to this, the rest of the affected women in Kilkinure get an apology and offer of compensation from the church. It does mean giving up all future claims.

No fancy visions, no unreliable storytelling, there was more progress in this episode than the last four put together. There was also a shocking breakdown from one woman as to how she was treated while giving birth as a teenager.