No Place Like Home2013-05-01
Wentworth's premiere drops Bea Smith into the Australian women's prison system after being arrested for attempting to kill her abusive husband. The episode establishes the series' register immediately: harder and more formally serious than its Prisoner predecessor, interested in the specific social ecology of incarceration rather than melodrama for its own sake. Kate Atkinson's Bea arrives as an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation, which is the premise's whole ethical commitment.
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