I Am Ruth stars Kate Winslet as Ruth alongside her daughter Mia Threapleton as Freya
(Picture: (Channel 4/PA))Why isn’t there more TV about mother-daughter relationships? Complex and fraught with low-level simmering resentment — especially during the teenage years — it’s certainly fertile ground for the latest feature-length episode in Dominic Savage’s excellent female-led I Am anthology series. Add the dark forces of social media into the maelstrom of adolescent hormones and vulnerability — and the outcome is bound to be explosive. I Am Ruth captures it all with horrifying accuracy.
National treasure Kate Winslet plays Ruth, a middle class, suburban single mum (in one scene she lusts after her spin instructor at Godalming leisure centre) who finds herself increasingly at a loss when it comes to her 17-year-old daughter, Freya, who is withdrawing and slipping at school.
