📺 Watched: Curfew Season 1.

Set in a world very similar to ours, plagued by male violence against women, the government of the day comes up with an obvious, if 50% unpopular, solution. Under the ‘The Women’s Safety Act’, they instigate a legal curfew where men are not allowed to leave their house between the hours of 7pm and 7am each night, at least unless they have special permission. They’re ankle-tagged wherever they go to make sure they follow the policy.

This proves to be a rather more impactful policy than the efforts so far of real Labour’s violence against women and girls “priority”, even if it clearly hasn’t got rid of the disgusting Andrew Tate-a-likes spreading their hate on the internet. Violent crime plummets.

Nonetheless it’s not entirely eliminated. This show tells the story of what happens next after a women’s murdered body is found one morning outside of the Women’s Safety Centre, as well as frequently touching on other aspects of the social effects of such a (fictional) policy.