The Cry

Subject: The Cry.

I wonder if The Cry, a drama currently shown on BBC television hasn't been written with an eye to the real life drama of the missing child Madeleine the daughter of Mr and Mrs McCann the Scottish couple who's child went missing in 2007.

The publicity and the circumstances of that case brought attention on the child's parents, even accusing them of being complicit in her disappearance.
The plot of The Cry is different but one has this interplay of law enforcement, the press and the emotionally constrained parents who pursued, through the media, a relentless pursuit  to find information about the whereabouts of Madeleine. The real life drama was never far from our screen, the emotionally strong controlled mother and the equally controlled father seemed emblematic of a middle class professional couple who's training in the  rigour of medicine made their precise practical appearances on our screens seem closer to Jane Austin than to a pair of modern day grieving parents.
The Cry depicts a psychologically controlling man with his frail fawn like young bride who's lack of experience in coping with the trauma of a crying baby leads us to believe that she unintentionally mixes up an adult dose of medicine with the babies dose and the baby dies. To protect his wife who is to all intents and purposes is now guilty of manslaughter, he bury's the baby and sets in motion the story that the baby has been stolen out of their car.
The plot is unfurling as I write and we don't know what twists and turns this psychological drama will take but some how I am reminded of the psychological pressure on the McCanns which they chose to put themselves through which at the time made me at least think, there was more in this than meets the eye. And so it is, in "The Cry",  the deep controlling forces of personality which makes one consider the paucity of rational faith in mankind when people embark on a trail of self preservation.