“The Split” is a dramatic British family drama in which its four female protagonists shine and a screenplay by Abi Morgan (“Shame”) that analyzes the limits of love, family and failure of a family with as much crudeness as sensitivity. marriage.
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“The Split” begins as a legal drama to use. Family attorney Hanna Stern (Nicola Walker) faces her first day in a large London firm after leaving Defoe, the family law firm run by her mother Ruth (Deborah Finlay) with the help of middle sister Nina ( Annabel Scholey). Rose (Fiona Button) is the fourth woman of the Defoe clan and the only one who has not chosen to practice law.
Hanna is happily married to Nathan (Stephen Mangan), also a lawyer, with whom she has three children. The life of Hanna and her sisters is turned upside down when, without warning, their father reappears in their lives. (Anthony Head, Giles in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’) who abandoned them thirty years ago.
One of the greatest virtues of ‘The Split’ is the fluidity with which it mixes the legal drama with the family problems that the Defoe sisters carry around. Each season (of six episodes) centers on a case of Hannah intertwining with the joys and sorrows that her family suffers / enjoys, sometimes dysfunctional and chaotic, but always united.
During the three seasons of the series, we will also see the breakup of Hannah and Nathan’s marriage: resentment, suspicion, accusations and infidelity … but also the ability of two people who love each other and who have shared a life together to forgive each other and overcome the pain of separation and the fear of loneliness.
‘The Split’ is, above all, an adult series, which treats the viewer like an adult. There are no good or bad characters, it doesn’t ask us to take sides, and it assumes that we all make mistakes, that we can make a bad decision, act cowardly, or even deliberately hurt someone we love. But most of all, It is a series about the family, about that safety net (conventional and unconventional) that loves us and accepts us as we are and that supports us even if we make mistakes.
You can see his three seasons in of the film.
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