The Best Episodes Directed By Sally Wainwright

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Episode 3

   S1:E310/26/2025

   Struggling to process the shock of her discovery, Kitty starts behaving badly, leading to an explosive family Sunday lunch at Beth’s house.

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   7.6/10(16 votes)

   #2 - Are You Still Talking?

   S1:E87/7/2019

   Following a four-week journey from Paris to Copenhagen, Anne finds acceptance and appreciation in Danish high society, stepping out of her sartorial comfort zone to attend a birthday ball hosted by Queen Marie. When difficult news arrives from Shibden, Anne is faced with the decision to stay in Europe or go back home.

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   7.4/10(17 votes)

   #3 - I Just Went There to Study Anatomy

   S1:E25/26/2019

   Anne begins a playful but dangerous courtship of shy local heiress Miss Walker, who quickly finds herself captivated by the attention of her charismatic and unusual neighbour. Anne's plan to renovate Shibden Hall is also stepping up a gear, and her determination to sink her own coal mines brings her into the path of local magistrate Christopher Rawson and his brother Jeremiah.

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   7.2/10(16 votes)

   #4 - Why've You Brought That?

   S1:E76/30/2019

   Before setting off for Europe to escape the heartache of her doomed relationship with Ann Walker, Anne invites Christopher Rawson to Shibden to rebuke him for publicly insulting Marian. Undeterred by his warnings that her accusations will have dangerous repercussions, Anne comes up with a bold, reckless strategy to finally sink her own pit and expose the Rawsons' industrial-scale theft of her coal.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Episode 1

   S1:E110/12/2025

   Frazzled by demanding jobs, chaotic families and endless spinning plates, five women’s worlds smash together when they form a punk rock band to enter a local talent contest.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - Episode 2

   S1:E210/19/2025

   Chaotic Kitty Eckersley bursts into rehearsals. The women begin to gel, only for Kitty to suddenly realise a heartbreaking connection she has to Beth.

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   6.9/10(19 votes)

   #7 - I Was Just Passing

   S1:E15/19/2019

   Halifax, 1832. Anne Lister returns from Hastings to Shibden Hall, having discovered that her would-be companion and lover, the aristocratic Vere Hobart, has accepted a marriage proposal from a man. Despite her affection for her elderly aunt, Anne is frustrated by the shabbiness of her ancestral home and finds her father and long-suffering sister difficult to live with.

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