Honour on ITV

I thought it was an interesting drama. The story is an important one and should be told.

It illustrates the determination of the woman police officer, to push her investigation to a conclusion, to secure some form of justice for the victim and the barriers she faced in doing so.

Perhaps it wasn’t what Banaz’s sister Payzee wanted to see, but nevertheless I thought it shone a light on an issue which needs greater illumination.
I have no words for the criminals who took this young woman’s life. Those actions are violent crimes not ‘culture’.

It makes me furious as well Jane but sadly it is culture - just as are other cruelties of which women and girls are the victims. What the UK has to do is to take crimes against women more seriously whether it’s ‘honour’ killings or the murder, attempted murder, rape, sexual harassment, physical abuse of females by males born and brought up here. Cultural behaviour rooted in sexism is widespread( and sometimes promoted by religious beliefs) - of course it doesn’t always result in murder but it does result in limited, sometimes ruined lives for many women. Ultra orthodox Jewish women have very very circumscribed lives, women in NI are still not equal with women on the mainland re abortion rights.

These men make me raging spitting mad. Its just a licence for sadistic bullying and cruelty. I don't usually think like this but deport these men and any others who think the same way. It's not culture it's just evil.

I think it’s good that the story is being told. There’s always an issue about the perspective a story is told from. This is from the police perspective obvs. That doesn’t make it wrong but different. It’ll be interesting to see the final episode. What’s been clear so far is what we already knew - ‘honour’ killings were not taken seriously enough by the police because usually women are the victims.

I watched and I usually love anything Keeley Hawes does but I too found her performance not up to her usual standard almost like it was all too much trouble.
A shame if they haven’t told the real story as I’m sure it needs telling.

I agree about the moping, Jane10

The sister of Banaz Mahmod isn't very happy about the script either.

Tricky one. This is what she said about it .

“It doesn’t really sit too well with me that that’s the angle they chose to go with because that’s not Banaz’s story, that’s somebody else’s story,” Payzee told the BBC.

"This is about somebody who lost her life very tragically and it’s not about somebody getting to tell their story. I don’t believe that it’s honouring Banaz.”

No, I didn’t fancy this.

I watched Freddie Flintoff and Bulimia.

Really interesting.