A really lethal 1800s British woman.

TxMike

This is billed here as a 2-part mini series but I was able to watch it as a single, 2-hour movie on PBS.

I became a Joanne Froggatt fan watching her in "Downton Abbey", she is a very authentic actress. Here she is Mary Ann who, over the course of her life, married several times and thus took several different last names. Perhaps she is best known as Mary Ann Cotton.

Historically she is billed as perhaps Britain's first female serial killer, records are incomplete but it is said that the count was upwards to 21. Including some of her own children "who got in the way of a new relationship". She was hanged at age 40.

Froggatt is very good in this role, as well as the other actors. I found the whole story fascinating and this drama seems to stick closely to historical accounts.

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TxMike 9 August 2019

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