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The Woman in the Wall Ruth Wilson and Peaky Blinders/Bad Sisters’s Daryl McCormack lead this gothic thriller centred on the Magdalene Laundries, set in a fictional Irish village.

The Woman in the Wall

Ruth Wilson and Peaky Blinders/Bad Sisters’s Daryl McCormack lead this gothic thriller centred on the Magdalene Laundries, set in a fictional Irish village. McCormack plays a detective who is tailing Wilson – a woman who has sleepwalked since she was incarcerated at a convent as a teenager, and who wakes to find a corpse in her house.
BBC, 27 August

The Changeling

Apple’s adaptation of has the potential to be thrilling and horrifying in equal measure. This story of a man trying to find his wife after a shocking, unthinkably terrible event has a truly charismatic presence in the lead role – Atlanta’s ever-excellent•

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