Mrs. Wilson - Richard Laxton
This is part of my unedited thoughts series.
This story falls foul of the biopic trap – it fails to tell a good story.
There are all the things required to make a great story but it just misses the mark and that’s because they stick to the facts.
The death of Mr. Wilson unravels all the lives of what we quickly learn are his many wives. None of them knew of the others.
The lead Mrs. Wilson then decides to investigate her past with him. This quickly leads him to go from being a saint to the opposite.
The truth is hard to see and as soon as she grabs hold of something firm it vanishes.
Ultimately, he is a scoundrel with no real answers or closure.
Throughout the series we go on the journey with Mrs. Wilson believing him to have been some sort of spy.
In the end, it does seem like this was correct and the impersonation of an officer also appears correct. How much of the rest of his, and everyone else, story is true or not is hard to unravel.
Each answer that we were given opened up more questions. There was a nice shot of all the family members at the end.
