There is no mention of a husband, partner or ex for Ruth is mentioned at all, and she leans on Billy too much – asking his advice about Freya, asking him to try to find out what’s wrong and report back. (Joe Anders here has a smaller part than Winslet’s or Threapleton’s, but he does equally fine work alongside the two powerhouse performances. Freya surely resents the easy rapport her brother Billy has with their mother. Freya frequently doesn’t speak when spoken to and Ruth is reduced to a stream of entreaties and increasingly desperate calls of “Darling!” as she tries to penetrate the miasma that envelops her daughter.Īt first it seems that we are dealing with flawed but normal family dynamics. The dialogue is spare (Savage works in close collaboration with his actors, and all lines are fully improvised). On the other hand, Winslet and Threapleton are so good, so real, so endlessly watchable that an hour might well have felt too short.
Although it has clearly been designed as a slow burn, as most standoffs between parents and adolescents are, there are, nevertheless, stretches where the tension dissipates rather than continues to build.
I AM KATE NETFLIX CAST SERIES
Possibly too slight for the 90-minute length and this might have worked better at the customary hour Savage’s other entries in the I Am … series have been.
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