A new mini-series is put online this week on Netflix. She returns to one of the biggest environmental scandals that hit the United Kingdom.
As every week, Netflix offers subscribers to discover exclusive new features. On Thursday, February 27, it is a British mini-series that is put online on the streaming platform. Composed of well-known faces of the cinema of Great Britain, the plot is interested in the true history of one of the largest environmental scandals in the country. Described as “the English Erin Brockovich”, this story promises to shock subscribers.
Between 1985 and 1997, toxic products were rejected in the atmosphere during the dismantling of industrial sites in Corby, England. In parallel, several parents in the city notice an impressive number of malformations at the birth of their children (three times more than in the surrounding areas, and ten times more than what one could expect in a city of this size). A legal action is carried out by mothers of thirty children, who ensure that they were exposed to toxic substances during their pregnancies, leading to the malformation of their children.
Toxic Town Traces the fight of these mothers against the industrial company to obtain truth and reparation within the framework of the case now known as that of “poisonings of Corby”. It took several years for them to obtain recognition and justice.
In the casting, the regulars of English -speaking productions will recognize several faces of British television: Aimee Lou Wood, discovered in Sex Education and today in The White Lotus ; Jodie Whittaker who played one of the doctors of Doctor Who; Robert Carlyle seen in the series Once Upon a Time ; Rory Kinnear famous for Imitation game, skyfall Or Quantum of Solace ; Claudia Jessie that we know as the unforgettable Eloïse de The Chronicle of Bridgertonor Joe Dempsie who had appeared in Game of Thrones and Brendan Coyle known as one of the majordomas of Downton Abbey.
Toxic Town is a mini-series consisting of only four episodes, lasting about an hour: it banges watery so perfectly for all those who would be interested in learning more about this scandal that marked the United Kingdom. The entire series is put online on the Netflix streaming platform this Thursday, February 27.