Ok so my embarassing gushing in my previous post about ‘friendship’ amongst the main, female characters in Scott and Bailey was put to the test, or rather in the episodes that followed it, Scott and Bailey’s friendship was put to the test by Rachel’s (Bailey) drunken self destructive behaviour. In the last two episodes they … Continue reading
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Eastenders: Syed and Christian Get Married (and other tearful TV tales)
Every year in October I watch an episode of the soap opera Eastenders (BBC 1) and one of Hollyoaks (Channel 4) as part of my teaching for an introductory course on television drama. Eastenders is produced by the BBC has the later time slot (8pm) and is very much aimed at a ‘family’ audience although … Continue reading
Fifty Shades of Grey and Villette
I was not especially interested in reading Fifty Shades of Grey because I had a strong sense it was not really ‘aimed’ at me. In the end I was compelled to so because I felt left out of conversations with women friends my age who had read it, or at least started doing so, and … Continue reading
Drama Queens Review 