Tigger Jaye

I don’t actually think the show achieved what it set out to do. As a survivor of abuse, I can tell you that the secretive part of the encounters is the most important key to predators and something they’ll remind you of at every opportunity. Claire didn’t seem to care if they were caught. She went to the diner where he worked ( they were seen by one of his friends), she drove him home and screwed him outside, asked to speak to him in full view of classmates etc. For someone who was trying to cover her tracks, this was abysmal. It seemed more like a soft porn film in parts rather than a fresh and thought provoking view of grooming. Eric’s ‘realisation’ that he’s been taken advantage of came far too late and out of the blue in episode 10 where he ‘confronts’ Claire which was as much of a surprise to me as it was to her as he seemed to be very much in love with her up until this point. There was no build up to this. He’d spent a lot of time to getting very upset with people who even implied that Claire was in the wrong from episodes 5-9 which made the final scene all the more confusing. In conclusion- it’s about a desperate and bored housewife who sleeps with a teenager and it ends badly (well for a bit at least, she still finds another chump to marry after leaving prison and manages to have two children of her own). Eric spends much of his time being outraged about Claire being classed as a sex offender instead of being outraged that he was violated.