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A dramatic series embodies the reality of Joseph, a young man obsessed with the past he tried to forget. Joseph decided one day to board a boat and go to Ireland to face his memories, where he meets there with his sister Anna, which he had not seen since childhood. Over time, Anna persuaded her husband to allow Joseph to stay and give him work in the construction company, where Joseph agreed. In this work, Joseph is forced to face the demons of his past again when he meets Craig, a mysterious figure stumbling in many dark situations.
In Joseph, director Shane Meadows, co-writer Jack Thorne and actor Stephen Graham have created a character strobing with vulnerability whose struggles feel achingly real.
Unspoken pain infuses every scene, every gesture and expression from Graham and in doing so lays the foundations, surely, to do justice to the suffering of victims everywhere.
Graham is an actor of raw emotional power, nakedly honest and unpredictable, but I spent whole minutes of the first episode wanting to be anywhere else but in a room with him, as he suffered and tried to deal with his suffering.
It's not an easy watch, as much for the feeling of rubbernecking a private hell as for its gut-puking moments. But it's that very intimacy that makes The Virtues special.