I Fought the Law

Sheridan Smith delivers the performance of a lifetime. Her portrayal of a distraught, angry and grieving mother, makes you believe her pain is real. Incredible. It's a travesty if she doesn't win an award after this. It's horrendous that this is a true story and the attitudes of the time make you glad we've moved on!!

I watched this show with my gran and grandad, who knew Ann from a group they were in to fight for justice for their children who had been murdered my gran and grandad lost their son through murder aswell and met Ann through one of the group meetings. Watching this show sent tears to our eyes especially since it happened so close to home. This show is so inspirational on so many levels, the fact Ann fought to change a law over 800 years old is truly powerful. I think Sheridan portrayed her beautifully and she should be very proud of herself. It's the best true crime series I've ever watched and it sent chills up my spine watching it, it's very emotional but nothing is shown that is too gory, however the tragedy Ann faced is enough to make your skin crawl no one should ever have to go through this. My gran was in tears, especially considering her son had been murdered aswell and the grief and anger stays with you forever. However, I think this series was portrayed beautifully and I think all the actors did an amazing job I would definitely reccomend you watch this show, especially if you like to see people overpowering the wrongfulness of the judging system. There was a lot of scenes we hadn't heard of like the fact he had murdered two others that left us in a state of shock. We are so happy this series has come out to hopefully keep her murderer in prison for the rest of his life and keep Ann safe she is such a brave woman and without her loads of other murderes could've gotten away meaning not only did she get justice for Julie but all the other victims aswell.

Sheridan smith portrayed this horrifying and deeply emotional series amazingly it's the best itv drama I've seen in a long time I think this story will stay with me my heart hurts for the family of beautiful Julie well done Sheridan smith and the courage Julie's mom had to bring this deeply emotional story back to life.

Wow. What a story, a true one at that. Just like the drama about the post office scandal this reminds us of injustice at a National level and of the brave, tenacious woman called Anne Ming who fought to have the 800 year old law of double jeopardy repealed and succeeded.

No one does northern working class, outraged woman better than Sheridan Smith. She absolutely excelled in the role. Depicting a lady in her late 50s very convincingly.

I've been looking forward to watching this for a while and it didn't disappoint. It was absolutely heartbreaking. What an amazing lady Ann Ming is, she never gave up. To change an ancient law like that is just amazing. You did Julie proud Ann and helped so many other people too. You don't need fancy words to change the law, you need a Mother who never gave up on getting justice for her daughter. This drama was so touching, I cried more than once. Sheridan was absolutely fantastic, no one else could have played Ann better. I'm a big fan of Sheridan but this is definitely one of her best yet. Daniel York Loh, who played Ann's husband was also very good.