Toxic Town, starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood, is the latest hit show out of Netflix, receiving an impressive 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But how much of it is based on a true story?

Includes spoilers for the show 'Toxic Town' Netflix's latest mini-series that's captured UK audiences is Toxic Town, a dramatisation of the true story of a group of Corby mothers who battled for justice when their children suffered as a result of one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals.

The new Netflix drama Toxic Town tells the story of a group of mothers looking for answers when their children are born with health issues

Netflix’s limited series ‘Toxic Town’ premiered on Feb. 27 and fictionalized the shocking Corby poisoning case

Early into Toxic Town, it got me thinking about Bank of Dave, and that’s before Rory Kinnear showed up. Both are stories about ordinary people from lesser-known, working-class parts of the U.K.; both are about community spirit and standing up to authority by putting power in the hands of ordinary people.