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BritBox’s ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ Is an Unflinching Crime Drama Centered on Capital Punishment: TV Review
In BritBox's ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ Lucy Boynton stars as Ellis, the last woman to ever be hanged in the United Kingdom.
The series also explores David’s co-dependent friendship with Carole (Bessie Carte) and Anthony Findlater (Ed Sayer), a married couple that weaponized their relationship with the race car driver to drive a wedge between him and Ruth. From her boss at the club to David and another suitor, Desmond (Mark Stanley) and into the detectives and judge’s treatment of her, it’s clear that Ruth’s death sentence isn’t simply a condemnation of her wrongdoings but more broadly of her desirability, perceived power and her unwillingness to conform. More than just a reimagining of a woman’s life so callously altered and then cut short, the series reflects on some of our more heinous human practices and how those deemed undesirable and unworthy so easily get lost in courts and systems that aren’t built for them to begin with.
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