Louisa Mellor Jan 29, 2017
Apple Tree Yard’s second episode paints a bleak but honest picture of the aftermath of sexual assault…
This review contains spoilers.
See related Amazon Prime UK: what’s new in February 2017?
If they weren’t already chastened by last week’s brutal final moments, anyone still rubbing their thighs over episode one’s sex scenes will feel suitably uncomfortable now. Until its last-minute shift into thriller territory, episode two of Apple Tree Yard was a sombre hour focused on the aftermath of rape.
The revenge plot didn’t make an appearance until very late, which gave due prominence to Yvonne’s dismal story, one told by director Jessica Hobbs and Emily Watson with restrained yet frank intimacy. We were shown the finger-shaped bruises on Yvonne’s thighs and how her psychological bruises outlasted them. Before she asked her 'spook' lover to step in, we saw her leave her job,...
Apple Tree Yard’s second episode paints a bleak but honest picture of the aftermath of sexual assault…
This review contains spoilers.
See related Amazon Prime UK: what’s new in February 2017?
If they weren’t already chastened by last week’s brutal final moments, anyone still rubbing their thighs over episode one’s sex scenes will feel suitably uncomfortable now. Until its last-minute shift into thriller territory, episode two of Apple Tree Yard was a sombre hour focused on the aftermath of rape.
The revenge plot didn’t make an appearance until very late, which gave due prominence to Yvonne’s dismal story, one told by director Jessica Hobbs and Emily Watson with restrained yet frank intimacy. We were shown the finger-shaped bruises on Yvonne’s thighs and how her psychological bruises outlasted them. Before she asked her 'spook' lover to step in, we saw her leave her job,...
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Not long after the Irvine Police Department began investigating drugs found in the car of Kelli Peters, President of the PTA of Plaza Vista Elementary School, they realized things weren't adding up. After all, Peters passed a sobriety test and a search of her home came up negative for prescription drugs. Peters adamantly denied that the drugs were hers, insisting they were planted. "Irvine police had a strong suspicion at that point that she might be telling the truth," Orange County prosecutor Chris Duff tells People. Fourteen months later, police charged fellow Plaza Vista parents Jill and Kent Easter, both lawyers,...
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Not long after the Irvine Police Department began investigating drugs found in the car of Kelli Peters, President of the PTA of Plaza Vista Elementary School, they realized things weren't adding up. After all, Peters passed a sobriety test and a search of her home came up negative for prescription drugs. Peters adamantly denied that the drugs were hers, insisting they were planted. "Irvine police had a strong suspicion at that point that she might be telling the truth," Orange County prosecutor Chris Duff tells People. Fourteen months later, police charged fellow Plaza Vista parents Jill and Kent Easter, both lawyers,...
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- PEOPLE.com
[CUSTOM_PLAYER_BRIGHTCOVE "4759023521001"] Not long after the Irvine Police Department began investigating drugs found in the car of Kelli Peters, President of the PTA of Plaza Vista Elementary School, they realized things weren't adding up. After all, Peters passed a sobriety test and a search of her home came up negative for prescription drugs. Peters adamantly denied that the drugs were hers, insisting they were planted. "Irvine police had a strong suspicion at that point that she might be telling the truth," Orange County prosecutor Chris Duff tells People. Fourteen months later, police charged fellow Plaza Vista parents Jill and Kent Easter, both lawyers,...
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- PEOPLE.com
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