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The week in TV: The Split; The Woman in White; The Terror; Westworld

Abi Morgan’s new divorce drama is a delightful family affair, The Terror – if you can get it – is tremendous, and Westworld is back on track

The Split (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Woman in White (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Terror (AMC)
Westworld (Sky Atlantic)

Several grand offerings last week, but without doubt the most human-sized was The Split. Being about a strong female dynasty of divorce lawyers in relatively humdrum London, it doesn’t (or not yet anyway) feature renegade robots, spectral waifs or Arctic monsters and is thus something of a catharsis. Bite-size problems, such as most humans face daily, of thwarted love and thwarted laughter, and niggling jealousies and seething grudges, and every morning’s dozen other greetings to our blearied souls.

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