It was sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana Burke who first coined the phrase Me Too, all the way back in 2006, but it was Alyssa Milano's 2017 tweet that opened the floodgates for a cultural reckoning. "If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me Too' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem," the actor wrote following an allegation from her Charmed co-star Rose McGowan that she had been raped by Harvey Weinstein. Milano herself commented 'Me Too', and nine days on, the hashtag had been used in more than 1.
7 million tweets from 85 different countries, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Change was in the air, or so it seemed. Finally, finally , justice would be done and the balance would be readdressed, at least that's how it felt at that moment in time.
But while Weinstein was subsequently imprisoned in the wake of Me Too, as were several other high-profile men, in April this year the movie mogul's rape conviction was overturned , and violence against women and girls remains endemic. Enter The Jetty , a four-part BBC drama about one northern English town's own post-Me Too reckoning. Jenna Coleman leads the cast as Ember Manning, a detective who is tasked with investigating a fire at a boat hut.
The property, which used to belong to her husband before his death a year ago, is being renovated by an out-of-towner hoping to make a hefty profit. But that encroachment ruffled local feathers, leading to threats .