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Phentex

(16,334 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 04:59 PM Apr 2019

Anybody watch Mrs. Wilson on PBS?

I wasn't gonna get started on it but I got caught up in it after a few minutes or so. Based on a real person.

Here's the blurb from the website:

Starring Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre), Mrs. Wilson is a powerful three-part drama inspired by the memoir of Ms. Wilson’s grandmother and family history.

Set in 1940s and 1960s London and 1930s India, the series follows Alison Wilson, who thinks she is happily married until her husband, Alec, dies and a woman turns up on the doorstep claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage – and Alec’s love for her – but is instead led into a world of disturbing secrets.

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Anybody watch Mrs. Wilson on PBS? (Original Post) Phentex Apr 2019 OP
Saw the first, elleng Apr 2019 #1
I was grabbed by the first episode and watched all three. SharonAnn Apr 2019 #6
No, but now I want to. marble falls Apr 2019 #2
Good series, I wonder how people can pull off this type of life. It makes me tired just thinking walkingman Apr 2019 #3
me too! Phentex Apr 2019 #7
"I wonder how people can pull off this type of life" mitch96 Apr 2019 #11
Actress Ruth Wilson is the granddaughter of the real Mrs. Wilson. Karadeniz Apr 2019 #4
odd coincidence... Phentex Apr 2019 #8
Ruth Wilson caused the show to be created Cicada Apr 2019 #12
They could have done it all in one or two episodes. broiles Apr 2019 #5
Enjoyed it. SharonClark Apr 2019 #9
I saw all three episodes. It was a good story. n/t. whathehell Apr 2019 #10

walkingman

(7,597 posts)
3. Good series, I wonder how people can pull off this type of life. It makes me tired just thinking
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 05:20 PM
Apr 2019

about it.

mitch96

(13,892 posts)
11. "I wonder how people can pull off this type of life"
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 09:07 PM
Apr 2019

This happened in my family. One relative had two distinct families. Each did not know about the other until the end.. Some wanted to see the others "pedigree" and or proof of relations..
I was told it was a very strange "reunion" as everybody involved LOOKED related.. HA!
Would have loved to be a fly on the wall at party...
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Phentex

(16,334 posts)
8. odd coincidence...
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 05:26 PM
Apr 2019

I didn't realize they were related but I found it amusing her real name is Wilson.

Thanks for the tip!

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
12. Ruth Wilson caused the show to be created
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 11:44 PM
Apr 2019

Here truth is stranger than fiction, an amazing real life story. Ruth promoted the production but if she hadn’t someone else probably would have. I saw one woman with a similar story from the same time say war time secrecy provided a cover permitting men to have a separate life with another woman. She believes Mr Wilson and her family member were part of a fairly large number of men exploiting wartime secrecy. It gave them the perfect story to tell their wife. Honey I can’t tell you where I go because I signed the national secrets act contract.

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