The Trailer for 'The Woman in the Wall' Promises a Dangerous Search for a Dark Truth
Showtime's The Woman in the Wall is hardly the first story that has flavored a traditional murder mystery with serious Gothic vibes and black humor, but what will likely set the series apart for many viewers is its use of those familiar tropes to explore a very unfamiliar story. (And one of the most shocking and inhumane scandals in Ireland's history.)
Set in the small fictional Irish town of Kilkinure, the series stars Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) as Lorna, a woman who wakes one morning to discover a corpse in her house. Horrifyingly, she has no idea who the dead woman is, how the body came to be in her home, or if she was somehow involved in the stranger's death. This is because Lorna suffers from extreme bouts of sleepwalking, a manifestation of leftover trauma from when she was forced to live at the town convent and saw her daughter, Agnes, taken away from her after her birth.
During these sleepwalking episodes, Lorna tends to do dangerous, sometimes even dark, things, behavior t
