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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Until I Kill You review – Anna Maxwell Martin delivers the best performance of her career

Shaun Evans as John Sweeney and Anna Maxwell-Martin as Delia Balmer in Until I Kill You
Shaun Evans as John Sweeney and Anna Maxwell-Martin as Delia Balmer in Until I Kill You. Photograph: ITV

I have said it before, but I will say it again: what a paucity of content there would be in the world, let alone the television schedules, if there were no violence by men against women. What an unrecognisable place it would be; how unimaginable to us all.

Until I Kill You is a drama that more than any of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of representations I have seen over the years gives some sense of the fathomless damage done and the strength required by survivors to overcome their experiences – by which I mean find some peace, some way to live their irreparably changed lives thereafter.

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