After thirteen years held captive by her kidnapper, 26-year-old Ivy Moxam escapes, steps out of an ordinary house, on an ordinary street, on an ordinary day, but everything is not easy for Ivy.
1977, Zimbabwe
30 January 1987, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
1971, London, England, UK
28 January 1972, Dublin, Ireland
11 February 1966, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
11 March 1993, UK
January1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
1989, Brighton, England, UK
1967, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
June 23, 2016
For a crime story it is unusually gentle and generous toward its characters; it is not cynical or despairing - indeed, it is in the end a love story, or rather, several interlocking love stories set in contrast to the pathological mockery of one.August 17, 2016
One of the great things about this series is that it forces you to confront your own lazy habits of thought, like judging characters in circumstances about which you know nothing.June 22, 2016
The series paints an appropriately complex picture of how this kind of abuse works to break down the mind of its target.August 05, 2016
Comer...delivers a stunning performance, playing on many levels at once, her growing disbelief as she understands she has spent much of her prime so isolated, convincing and heartbreaking.July 01, 2016
Despite the intentional opacity of Comer's character in many scenes, she is fantastic, delivering an intensely physical performance that illustrates how often trauma manifests in the body.June 21, 2016
We respond so immediately to any story about a missing child that we may even overlook weaknesses in writing, performances or direction. That isn't a problem with Thirteen.June 23, 2016
Switching from subdued to rageful, actor Jodie Comer convinces you of both Ivy's fears and her feral side.June 24, 2016
Thirteen takes white-knuckle turns that elevate it from the expected.June 27, 2016
Thirteen is somewhat of a retread of other television series with similar child abduction/returned premises, though it is made better by the performances of its core cast.