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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 335131" data-attributes="member: 23">Series Two Episode SixNaturally, I was very curious to see how the Widows saga would end, and Dolly’s assassination of Harry is pretty much what I expected. But in the best possible way.Of course, the third series being called She’s Out was a huge clue to the fact that Dolly would get done for something. Once Harry killed Linda, it was almost inevitable that Harry would die at Dolly’s hands. And when Shirley was killed in the jewel heist it was all but a done deal.Even though I spoilt myself by stupidly clicking on Willie’s inline spoiler about Shirley being shot, I’d successfully either forgotten all about it or tuned it out of my head once I was invested in the story. So not only was her being shot still a surprise to me, but it hadn’t even occurred to me that another widow would be killed off, even with this being the grand finale. And so this managed to pull the rug out from under me a couple more times before Dolly’s fateful liaison with Harry.Kate Williams has been a hidden gem as Audrey, and she almost broke my heart in these last episodes, from her joy at seeing her baby’s heartbeat on the scan to the almost hollow shock on learning that not only is her daughter dead but also that both her partner and son were involved. I think hers is the story I’m most curious about seeing more of, and I understand she does appear in She’s Out, so that’s something to look forward to.The staging of the final confrontation scene: at night with the dramatic-yet-romantic and very English setting of the stunning Sham Bridge over Thousand Pound Pond at Kenwood House was everything I could have wanted. I have been to Kenwood House in daylight and it looked very different by night - appropriate eerie, but still absolutely stunning, especially in HD. It was perfect.Overall, I still preferred the first series, with its uneasy relationships between the women, and their motivation coming from righting what they see as a wrong and finishing what was started in memories of their husbands. The motive in the second series has felt a little less interesting, and while it’s been good to see different facets to their characters, the widows themselves have been presented as less morally ambiguous. I also found their return to England a little underwhelming after the tension surrounding the flight to Rio. With all the trouble to escape the country, once the story took the turn of “let’s get Harry”, it was never strongly felt that they were worried about being caught for the heist as they went about their business.But these are fairly minor quibbles. I suppose it suffers from sequilitis, with the original setting the bar so high it’s impossible to recapture that lightning in a bottle again. It could be argued that a follow-up wasn’t even necessary as the first six episodes stand on their own as a complete story. But since it was made, it’s enjoyable enough, and certainly ended up better than I feared after the first couple of 1985 episodes.</blockquote>

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