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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 335219" data-attributes="member: 23">She’s Out Episode One <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fa.ltrbxd.com%2Fresized%2Ffilm-poster%2F4%2F8%2F4%2F5%2F8%2F4%2F484584-she-s-out-0-460-0-690-crop.jpg%3Fk%3D401398c4fe&f=1&nofb=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Well, there’s certainly a build-up to the on-screen return of Dolly, with just tantalising glimpses and whispered legends for the first fifteen-to-twenty minutes. We begin with a series of post-Prisoner/pre-Wentworth women’s prison banter about Dolly being Top Dog and doing time for murder (is this gossipy exaggeration, I wonder. The end of Widows II told us Dolly’s sentence was lowered to manslaughter).We spent much time meeting other prison departees as they arrive at a foreboding run-down mossy old country pile - a former health club - on the orders of the calculating Ester Freeman, herself a former prisoner. There’s the usual ragtag assortment, in many ways reflecting the original. Evoking the spirit of Linda is the loud, brassy one whose line upon arrival made me laugh as it’s the one repeatedly used by French & Saunders as every character entered the room in their Lynda La Plante satire:There’s the Shirley-esque blonde wannabe model, this time a Scouse former sex worker who models herself upon Marilyn Monroe (at one point she even caterwauls a line or two from Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend as she poses in the mirror). She presents her manicure to the assembled company telling them she does hands, naturally setting herself up for numerous “hand job” gags at her expense. Who else? Well, there’s Ester’s second-in-command, Julia, the former doctor struck off and imprisoned for selling her drugs who seems possibly the most interesting of all (admittedly not a high bar based on this first episode). She’s Gloria’s former cellmate and they loathe one another which is creating the most interest besides Dolly herself. There’s the larger-than-life smiley-but-cheeky Irish one (“Got a tenner for the cab?”). And there’s the trod-upon housekeeper type who I thought at first was Corrie’s Angela Griffin but isn’t as it turns out. She’s not one of the ex-prisoners as far as I can make out, but Ester seems to have a hold over her which piques my curiosity. Each of the women is brought by taxi, while a chauffeur-driven Rolls is sent to collect Dolly from Holloway to take her wherever she wants to go. Esther clearly has money or feels Dolly important enough to play “million dollar spit in the ocean”. And, as she tells all the women who’ve arrived, the plan is to gain Dolly’s trust, work out where she’s hidden the jewels from the heist and then screw her over. continued...</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?