The Woman In the Wall NYC Premiere

On Wednesday evening, showtime hosted a pre-screening of their brand new series  “The Woman In The Wall” at the Metrograph in New York City. Starring Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack. The series is a six-episode suspense thriller produced by Joe Murtagh. The series takes place in Ireland about a deranged not so stable Lorna Brady (Wilson), who wakes up in her home to find a dead woman on her floor. She’s not sure if she’s responsible for the women’s murder or how the corpse even ended up in her home. Now, you might be wondering how one cannot know if they’ve killed someone.  Lorna has suffered a lot of emotional and painful trauma ever since she was incarcerated at a convent at just 15 years old, where she gave birth to her only daughter, who was stolen from Lorna and never to be seen again. We then meet Detective Colman, who comes into town to investigate another crime, the death of a beloved priest. Still, these two storylines quickly become one, and Lorna becomes Colman’s number-one suspect.  The series is inspired and loosely based on the Magdalene laundries. These were institutions run by the Roman Catholic Church and operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run to house “fallen women.” When asked what attracted Executive Producer Joe Murtagh to create the series he responded,

“I knew it nothing about this, this unbelievable scandal which rocked Ireland until 1996 and 1998 that touched thousands of lives. I couldn’t believe it happened, but more so, I couldn’t believe that I didn’t know it had happened, and anyone I spoke to after that didn’t know what happened outside of Ireland even to this day, they never heard of this, and so ultimately it was it came from a desire to rectify that, but just to get the story out there by any means possible so the people who are still fighting for justice, will hopefully be more empowered to do what they do best because more people know.”