History Series / OrdealByInnocence

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In the scene where Hester and Tina visit the cemetery, they are surrounded by marble tombstones... except for Jack's grave, which is marked only by a wooden cross with a brass plaque.

* MsFanservice: If Gwenda isn't wobbling around the mansion in tight dresses, she's a SweaterGirl (in the flashbacks to the murder), and if she isn't a Sweater Girl, she's sunning in a bikini on the lawn.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Rachel. She makes it clear from the start that she thinks Mary marrying Phillip is a mistake, and [[VindicatedByHistory is already proven correct]] by the time of her murder. Then there's her actions with Hester: [[spoiler: Hester makes a runaway marriage. Rachel finds out by recognising her handwriting on a letter to Kirsten, and opening it. On the day of her murder, Rachel tracks them down, and then bribes Hester's husband to leave her. She then drugs Hester and takes her to a clinic with instructions to check Hester for possible 'results', and then okays an abortion, without Hester's explicit consent. Most of these actions - especially the abortion - are obviously bad. However, Hester's husband is paid off with a relatively small amount of money - ''and'' his attitude at getting the money implies he was expecting it - and he doesn't come back when Rachel's death hits the paper to offer support. Given Hester's apparent age (Ella Purnell was 18 at the time of filming) and that the marriage happened eighteen months in the past, the marriage was probably illegal as well. The family also already has a sterling example of how badly a wrong choice of spouse can go in Mary and Phillip. As for the abortion... unwed mothers were [[ValuesDissonance treated very badly]] in the 1950's, and frankly, Hester really doesn't seem to be ready for motherhood. And again, though the Argyll children don't know it, there's already another example of a teenage girl being seduced and impregnated with disastrous results in Kirsten. While Hester says to Tina at Rachel's grave that 'I hated her that day, I could have killed her' (and no one denies that she was justified in feeling that way), Hester doesn't express any regret at losing her husband, wishing she had her baby, or a belief that she would be a happy wife and mother without her mother's actions.]]

The cast includes Creator/BillNighy, Creator/AliceEve, Creator/MatthewGoode, Creator/EllaPurnell, Creator/EleanorTomlinson and Creator/LukeTreadaway.

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