I like this but ...

I do enjoy watching this mostly because despite its flaws I think Jodie Comer is really watchable and a great actress. My boyfriend and I however are both exasperated with the insensitivity of the police every episode.

I've seen there is another similar topic regarding this and l'm not surprised because it's really unrealistic.

If this actually happened, and there are some examples I can think of in Germany and the US, the sensitive procedure of dealing with the victims would be paramount. When Ivy is first rescued she is paraded all over the police station in a space suit with some random liaison officer, offered seemingly no privacy or sensitivity. She is then allowed home that afternoon like she was a teenage runaway missing for a couple of nights. Aside from what seemed like a one off hour long appointment with a psychologist she and her family are just left to their own devices? I feel like in reality the amount of preparation for a return to the normal world supervised and supported by many professionals would be the way this would be handled. Not just for Ivy but for the whole family. For a start I doubt it would be wise for the sisters fiancé to be remaining in the house when she first came back. It would be a slow process surely of everybody, esp Ivy, in overcoming fears and trust etc.

Then there is the cackhanded way Ivy is dealt with by the police in particular the female officer who from the first couple of seconds of meeting Ivy seemed to hate her and treat her like a romantic rival with the policeman instead of a young girl who had been victimised and locked up for years. It's just ridiculous. Like another poster has said, have they never heard of Stockholm syndrome or thought how terrifying it would be to go through what Ivy went through. The fear of and the infliction of violence and abuse and the threats of a murderer and rapist which is what her abductor was would be enough to silence and coerce you into submission. The way they were acting like Ivy was willing in the cctv images was a joke. Acting like she wanted to be there because she didn't run away. Ugh it's so annoying they don't seem to have an iota of understanding or compassion, from a human level or just from any police training or whatever. They are both incompetent. Also the way they act like its Ivy's fault if anything happens to phoebe is again insane. Not to mention the way she is arrested over the body. What do they expect when they half heartedly examine her and send her home that night with not so much as an in depth series of interviews and care involving professional therapists. Why would an abused kidnapped person spill her guts to a bunch of strangers treating her coldly from the start. Ridiculous.

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