While we were on sabbatical I watched a great western mini-series on Netflix called Godless. I won’t go into the ins and out of the story here, it is essentially about a mining town populated by widows who are at the mercy of unscrupulous business men and a gang of bandits out for revenge.

Michele Dockerty (Downtown Abbey) plays a strong lead as another widow who owns a nearby ranch and Jeff Daniels is the chief villain.

One of the sub-plots involves a romance between the town’s deputy played by Thomas Sangster (Love Actually and Game of Thrones) and the young adult daughter of a Buffalo Soldier played by Jessica Sula, a young black Welsh actress previously known from the UK TV series Skins.

When her father finds out she has not only kissed the white gun-slinging deputy, but offers to bath him he sees the danger to her reputation and her life given the redneck nature of many of the characters. He forbids them to see one another and in the subsequent scene her gives her a bare bottom switching on the front porch.

It is quite a long scene and seen from the point of view of Sangster who contemplates some violent intervention and handled realistically.