S01.E06: Do No Harm

[AnimeMania]

Dolours and Marian discover a new weapon, their bodies.

Premiere Date: November 14, 2024      FX on Hulu  

[Danny Franks]

The fact that the Price sisters were put in a men's prison is scandalous, and shows how vindictive and outraged the British legal system was by the bombing. Bomb Northern Ireland all you like, but England? That's utterly disgraceful!

The hunger strikes were incredibly powerful statements. I can't imagine the willpower it took, and the faith that what they were doing did actually matter. The force feeding was another example of the casual inhumanity of the British government at the time. They couldn't let the strikers "win" either by acceding to their demands or by the strikers starving themselves to death, so that was the solution. Just try to wait them out.

Bobby Sands is the most famous hunger striker, of course, because he was elected to parliament while on hunger strike, and ended up dying, along with nine other men, because Thatcher wouldn't allow her government to show basic humanity. That lack of humanity clearly extended to plenty of normal people as well. 

They did a good job of showing Dolours and Marians' declining health, both physical and mental, without asking the actresses to lose a load of weight.

If I'd not known the story, I'd have been convinced that Marian was going to die, but I don't know the timing of the government caving was quite as dramatic as depicted here.

 

[chediavolo]

I wish they didn’t dedicate a whole episode to this.