Hijos de la nieve

One of the best tv shows I've seen in years, Snow Angels (on UK's All-4 streaming service) is the 6-art account of the disappearance of an infant child and the sympathetic scrutiny of his shocking family life. A drug-addicted mother and a reformed addict father, who is heroically loyal to her, struggle to cope with the arrival of a second child into their hand-to-mouth existence. Meanwhile we follow the trials of a maternity care nurse whose job it is to make evaluations of the ability of new parents to cope. How will these two harrowing narratives intersect?

Snow Angels is a difficult but compelling watch, tender and sad, shocking and utterly involving. A series that goes where most others, for all their shock and gore and posturing, would fear to tread.

Highly recommended.