Care review – Sheridan Smith excels in delicately observed drama

Jimmy McGovern’s story of a single mother forced to become her own mum’s carer will chime with many. And Smith’s performance is her best yetWhen Jenny (Sheridan Smith) leaves the hospital to which her mother Mary (Alison Steadman) has been taken after a car crash brought on by a stroke at the wheel, she finds she has driven there without any money to pay the parking. Can the man in the booth just let her out, please? He cannot. So she has to leave her car, get an expensive taxi