Based on an incredible true story that played out in London between the 1940s and 1960s and India in the 1930s, it stars the superb Ruth Wilson and Hawes in a powerful three-part drama.
The series follows Alison Wilson, who believes she is in a happy marriage until her polygamist husband, Alec, dies and a woman turns up on the doorstep claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. From there on, it’s a winding path of discovery and disturbing secrets along the way as Wilson tries to find out the truth.
Iain Glen, Fiona Shaw and Anupam Kher also star, and this role earned Hawes another Bafta TV nomination.Keeley Hawes’ character, DCI Goode, is at the centre of Honour’s narrative.Banaz Mahmod. When young Banaz disappears from London in 2006, DCI Goode is called in to investigate and uncovers a trail of missed opportunities. The two-part crime drama came out in 2020 and brought attention to the topic of so-called honour killings. Mahmod, an Iraqi Kurdish woman who lived in London, was murdered on the orders of her family after she left her abusive marriage for another man.