Geraldine

Geraldine is Carolyn Martens's adult daughter, freshly bereaved and visibly out of step with her mother's icy composure. She turns up eager for warmth and reassurance, prone to oversharing and small, needy gestures, and she wears her grief openly in a family that treats emotion as a liability. She wants to be noticed and held.

Gemma Whelan plays her as touchingly uncool in a show full of poised, dangerous women, and that ordinariness is the point — she's what happens when Carolyn's chill finally lands on someone. The comedy of her neediness sits right next to real sorrow, and Whelan never lets you settle on which one you're watching.