
Ruth Wilson gives an extraordinary performance but the series is ‘hysterically overcooked’
“The Woman in the Wall’s title did not seduce me,” said Carol Midgley in The Times: plonking the words “woman” or “girl” in the title of novels and adaptations became fashionable some while ago (“The Girl on the Train”, “The Woman in the Window”, etc.), and it now grates. Yet the drama turned out to be one of the finest I’ve seen this year. “Easily.”