Anyone Watched 'Honour' Last Night ?

[Bobbisox1]

With the brilliant Keeley Hawes, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to the second part tonight

[Peter Pedant]

// I like Alison Steadman.//

oh Mr Bennett ! you have five daughters to be married and there you are in front of the telly watching Honour! we will all starve !

I like Alison Steadman as well

[ladybirder]

I don't think I could say I "enjoyed" it, it was harrowing and made all the more so because it was true. That poor poor girl, what they did to her, and laughing and boasting about it. She was completely let down by the police, 5 times. One of the most gripping things I have seen on TV. On the programme afterwards it was said that there are about 12 honour killings a year here, that we know of. However it is believed the figure is much higher and goes unreported because when a daughter goes missing it is usually her family who would report it to the police. Being an honour killing of course her family do not report it. Shameful.

[ladybirder]

I thought more people would have something to say about this programme. It was so disturbing.

[Bobbisox1]

Oh I forgot about the documentary LB , I'll get it on catch up , thank you

[emmie]

i too watched it with increasing anger, a good depiction of a truly harrowing case. I can't help but think some of these people have
no moral compass and that this little girl was just a number to the police.

[ladybirder]

Except to DCI Caroline Goode Em, who just wouldn't let it go bless her. Ironic it is called Honour when her family had none. So sad about Banaz's lovely boyfriend.
Her sister will still be in hiding in her safe house, not a nice life.

[Ken4155]

While it was based on a true, very tragic, story, it is hard to ascertain just how much 'poetic licence' was used. But, if there is truth in the relentless work put in by the lady on the computers, then she, too, deserves special mention. She was like a dog with a bone.

[ladybirder]

Agreed Ken, she was amazing, what a worker, sleeping on the job eh! The bit where her and Goode grabbed and hugged each other when they knew she/they had cracked it was wonderful.
Mally mentions reading the real story after she watched it. Mally if you're still looking in, where can we read it please?

[Sqad]

It did absolutely nothing for me,was flat with a story which was uninspiring and totally predictable.
Honour killing.......yes we know it goes on, totally unacceptable and horrible in every way.
What did we learn from this docudrama?....nothing.
Acting....average. Keeley Hawes was either crying or using the f..word far too often.
No,it did nothing for me.

[Ken4155]

I thought it was a very sensitive subject quite well handled, sqad, but each to their own. Much of what a detective does is probably mundane and mind-numbingly boring.

[ladybirder]

Fair enough sqad. Were you shocked that the police ignored her 5 times though? As you say, we all know it goes on so even more reason the police should have taken her seriously.

[tamborine]

didnt see the show but am experiencing similar problem with our female asian junior, who is 'seeing' local white lad. Her parents object to her relationship saying she's underage @ 18y but I know theres more.

[Sqad]

ladybirder....yes, 5 times not taken seriously does seem a bit extreme and smacks of incompetence, but hey Sheffield ,immigrant girl goes missing along with tens of thousands of other teenagers who have opted out of society, overstretched and under resources, probably an illegal immigrant as well.?.............yes, understandable, but undesirable.

[tamborine]

^^suspect there is more

[ladybirder]

Oh heck Tambo, that's very worrying.
Southwark I think sqad but same difference!
Off to walkway dog so see you later.

[naomi24]

I watched both episodes tonight and thought it very good. However, the thing that struck me is how ignorant the police are of the religious beliefs and cultural attitudes of the people they deal with on a day to day basis. The detective said of the victim's mother something like 'I would expect more of her as a woman and as a mother', but why would she expect more when she's dealing with people from a third world society immersed in an antiquated belief system? One of the reasons the grooming gangs got away with it for so long. Ignorance.

[emmie]

quite agree Naomi, ignorance and backwards thinking on the part of the family..

[waterboatman]

Yes. I'll watch anything with Keeley Hawes in. But it is good!

[mallyh]

Ladybirder i googled Banaz Mahmod on wikipedia it tells you the whole story i found the funeral part very disturbing .

[naomi24]

Emmie, I meant ignorance on the part of the police.