<i>Kiri</i> Is a British Import Worth Watching
The four-part miniseries is a thoughtful and devastating story about the death of a 9-year-old<strong> </strong>foster child.
If there’s one thing British TV drama does better than its American counterpart, it’s turning real-life events into necessary cultural debates. Ripped-from-the-headlines stories in the U.S. get relegated to one-off episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, or sporadic “topical” plotlines in other splashy network dramas. But in the U.K., which has perfected the art of the three- or four-episode miniseries, they’re gracefully and thoroughly dissected. Recent shows like Peter Kosminsky’s The State, , and Nicole Taylor’s have excavated and exposed the fault lines of modern Britain, frominstitutionalized sexual abuse to the draw of .
