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Who’s behind bars

TIME

Streaming: Neon and Sky Go from Sunday, November 19

SCREW

Streaming: TVNZ+ from Monday, November 20

It’s not the people who are bad, it’s the system that’s brutalising. If there is any message from Time, it is this.

Sean Bean earned a Bafta for his lead role as a man thrown into the prison system in thewas named the best mini-series of 2021. There were no plans to extend the story and the writer’s job appeared to be done – until the BBC suggested that he create a second season set in a women’s prison.

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