TV review: Lifting the lid on horrors behind closed doors

RTÉ Investigates’s searing look at the rise in domestic violence during lockdown was the highlight of the television week

Domestic Abuse – A Year of Crisis on RTÉ One: Barry O’Kelly’s measured report for RTÉ Investigates mapped a bleak hinterland of misery and fear

Domestic Abuse – A Year of Crisis (RTÉ One)

This is Going to Hurt (BBC One)

Chloe (BBC One)

The case histories examined in Domestic Abuse – A Year of Crisis (RTÉ One) were appalling, and made for hard watching no matter your background. With strikingly stark inkflow animations by illustrator Ann Kiernan, Barry O’Kelly’s measured report for RTE Investigates mapped a bleak hinterland of misery and fear.

Year two of the pandemic was one ...