The Best TV Show Of The Last Decade Has Been Out For A Year, And You Haven’t Even Heard Of It
From the director of This Is England and with a score by PJ Harvey, The Virtues is as good as television gets.
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Content warning: This article contains discussion of sexual assault.
In the opening five minutes of
The Virtues, the 2019 miniseries from
This Is England director Shane Meadows, a man named Joe (Stephen Graham) makes himself a cup of tea, runs the bath, stands by a window, and begins to silently cry.