L. Jayne Pritchard

I just watched all three episodes tonight and it was emotionally hard to watch and so dark. I had no idea policing used to be THIS corrupt. No wonder CPS started demanding mountains of evidence against alleged criminals from the police. I don’t doubt that things like this still happen—I’ve had mostly negative experiences with the police where they’ve lied about incidents or refused to show their PC number etc—same attitude just different tactics. Just wanted to give a nod to the storytelling as well—it was incredible—the ability to portray nuanced and complex characters was mind blowing.

This film made me feel glad that I have access to light at the flick of a switch. It must have been horrible to live mostly in darkness. No wonder people were suspicious in the olden days. I thought it was a very atmospheric film with good acting.

I don’t get it, the Italians immigrated to NY in the 19th century from Italy, poverty was a normal feature of 19th century life, in general, look at NY now, it’s a mess, full of vagrants. It wasn’t America’s responsibility to house and care for the Italians and it’s pretty rich for the Vatican to have dictated their demands from their impressive wealthy buildings. Life was hard for everyone and we all know what superseded the huge levels of immigration, it provided a breeding ground for organised crime and the formation of the mafia, it took America decades to try and gain control of their country, some scenes have probably fallen on deaf ears, but in one scene Cabrini boasts about the Italian vote ratio and how much the mayor needs their votes, and she requests the mayors support and protection, this is the formation of the mafia in its infancy.

The writer claimed that he didn’t want to go to the police because she had mental health issues so he made a dark comedy about her instead, she’s currently being harrassed and she’s received death threats. Many people, mostly men, applaud the comedy for empowering men to come forward to the police etc, they say men are treated different to women and this programme appears to feed their victimhood mentality, I’ve seen another comment calling it a porn misery. These people clearly don’t read stats relating to violence ane crimes against women. Women don’t get it easier, they’re murdered, stalked, raped, spiked on a daily basis and ziltch is done about it.

Effing awful, a film catered for incels and paedophiles. A woman with a child’s brain, go figure.

Another stunning performance from Florence Pugh, I cried after watching it.

I love this programme so much and restores my faith in the police - so much that I’m thinking of applying to join the police.