# Thirteen (2016)

> A 26-year-old woman tries to rebuild her life after thirteen years in captivity, confronting a family and a world that have moved on.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/57962

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 5
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, crime
- Created by: Marnie Dickens
- Network: BBC Three (Online)
- Cast: Jodie Comer, Natasha Little, Stuart Graham, Katherine Rose Morley, Richard Rankin, Valene Kane, Aneurin Barnard, Eleanor Wyld
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5159916/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: somber, tense, intimate, bittersweet, restrained, hopeful

## What critics say

Audiences broadly rate the miniseries positively, praising its intense performances and its sensitive handling of a survivor's return to ordinary life.

## Synopsis

Thirteen (2016) is a British television miniseries created by Marnie Dickens for BBC Three. Across five hour-long episodes, the drama follows Ivy Moxam (Jodie Comer), a 26-year-old woman who has spent thirteen years in captivity and now must learn to live again in ordinary English society. Her efforts to reconnect with her mother Christina (Natasha Little), her father Angus (Stuart Graham) and her sister Emma (Katherine Rose Morley) are shadowed by a police investigation led by DI Elliott Carne (Richard Rankin) and DS Lisa Merchant (Valene Kane), who are working to understand what happened and who is responsible. The engine of the story is the friction between Ivy's hunger for normality and the fractured memories and suspicions that keep pulling her back to the past. Each episode moves between present-day rebuilding and carefully placed flashback fragments, building a quietly intense emotional portrait. The tone is restrained, sombre and humane, with an atmosphere of unease and hard-won hope. Fans of Room, Broadchurch and The Girl in the Basement will find resonance in its study of trauma, recovery and the families left to pick up the pieces.

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