In the opening episode of Time, Jodie Whittaker’s character Orla O’Riordan loses everything when she is sent to prison. Her home, her children, her freedom and her future, all gone. Her crime? Being poor during a cost of living crisis and, in desperation, making one poor decision.
If series one of Jimmy McGovern’s prison-based series was powerful – Sean Bean and Stephen Graham producing brilliant performances as it explored crime and punishment and redemption – then series two, this time set in a women’s prison, could not be more timely.
Whittaker stars alongside breakout star of The Last of Us, Bella Ramsey, and Tamara Lawrance, whose performance alongside Letitia Wright in The Silent Twins is etched on the minds of anyone who saw it.
They play three very different women thrown together when they arrive in the same prison on the same day. The script, by
