Connor Macgregor Reviews...Hetty Feather
2x01 - Foundling Day
INTRO: Series Two of Hetty Feather kicks off with Hetty in a morally challenging position, destiend to define the fate of a newborn forever.
SUMMARY: Hetty is shocked at the brisk way in which baby Hazel Didcott is received from her mother at the orphanage, the more so when she learns Hazel's name will be changed, although she is told why it is necessary. She plans to send Hazel to Peg and Jem, who know more about her birth mother, and when bad boys Vince and Judd are caught stealing to trade for a football, she takes advantage of their situation to further this plan.
REVIEW: New Babies are brought into the home albeit by emotional and cruel reasons. One mother is very emotional and Hetty as a result takes pity on the child, vowing to keep her name known to her unlike many of the other children. She decides to formulate a scheme to get her to her former foster family who were previously very loving during her time away from the home. As a result, she switches the name tags in the hope that she will have a better life. She also ponders over her own birth mother at the same time a mysterious lady arrives at the home looking for answers herself. I enjoyed this episode and was a good opener to Series 2. Hetty now has developed a sort of coda, morals that enable her to do the right thing in a tough unjust world. I also notice slowly the children are all growing up slowly but surely.
RATING: 83% - A-