{"id":54803,"date":"2024-07-15T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2071369"},"modified":"2024-07-16T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:00:27","slug":"the-jettys-double-twist-in-episode-1-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-jettys-double-twist-in-episode-1-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jetty\u2019s double twist in episode 1 changes everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s break it down.***HUGE EPISODE 1 SPOILERS AHEAD*** <\/p>

By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 15 July 2024 at 21:00 PM<\/p>

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***HUGE EPISODE 1 SPOILERS AHEAD***<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warning: This article contains discussion of sexual assault which some readers might find upsetting.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman<\/a>) is tasked with investigating a fire at a boat hut in BBC drama The Jetty<\/a>, little does she know that there\u2019s an almighty storm brewing \u2013 and one that will not only destabilise the town she calls home, but will also force the detective to reevaluate her own past in excruciating detail.<\/p>\n

Her husband Mack, who owned the property prior to his death a year ago, was several years older than a teenage Ember when they first met. But that concerning power dynamic didn\u2019t deter him from pursuing her and she gave birth not long after they met, when she was just 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, that is absolutely not the same thing,\u201d Ember says to her daughter Hannah (Ruby Stokes) when she\u2019s questioned about the parallels between her own relationship history and what has happened to Miranda Ashby (Shannon Watson), a pregnant 16-year-old who is the victim of sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n

But at the end of the first episode, an uncomfortable truth comes to light that not only casts Ember\u2019s relationship with Mack in a new and troublesome glow, but also shifts the landscape of the narrative in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n

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Tom Glynn-Carney as Malachy in The Jetty.<\/span><\/figcaption> Firebird Pictures, Ben Blackall<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

While sifting through a box of Mack\u2019s possessions alongside Hannah, Ember makes a shocking discovery: a photograph of her late husband with none other than Amy Knightley (Bo Bragason), an underage girl who vanished from the town 17 years ago and hasn\u2019t been seen since.<\/p>\n

The pair were sexually involved \u2013 although Riz (Weruche Opia), a podcaster who specialises in crimes against women and girls, is quick and correct to note that the only term applicable in such cases is statutory rape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what it\u2019s called when a grown man has sex with an underage girl,\u201d she asserts, referring to Miranda, but the same is also true for Malachy (Tom Glynn-Carney), previously known to us as Mack, and Amy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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