• Women in dominant and powerful roles. This challenges the stereotypes of males in dominant roles in PPD's. Viv in charge - unlike The Bill. Post - modern women, Paul Abbott wanted to reflect society. 1975 sexual equality act - cultural verismilitude - no more glass ceiling effect.
• Multi- strand narrative - Down's case and other stories throughout (e.g honour killing) creates intellectual puzzles and cultural & generic verismilitude. conforms to PPD's. engages the audience. more crime happening in society. more texts are now hybridised. makes more money = 2nd series.
• Flashbacks of Cathy trying to remember what happened to her. Non-linear narrative. Intellectual puzzles. Manipulation of time and space. audiences aren't left out.
• Selling the organs. shows change in society - generic verismilitude. showing what is happening in society and other parts of the world. shows social and historical change - illegal.
• Men are the killers and the women are victims and vulnerable.
• Viv's husband is a stay-at home husband. creates verismilitude. subverts PPD's characters personal lives. psuedoindividualisation. channel 4 breaking boundaries.
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