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Things you should watch

[acari]

Some Girls

It's a British show about four girls who are best friends and go through the trials and tribulations of school, family, love and growing up together. It's screamingly funny and irreverent, and feels very real: they swear, they have sex, they talk shit, they look and act like actual teenagers. These are the protagonists and they are all amazing in their own way. Viva (my favourite) is the POV character and a little miss overachiever who goes through life with a perpetual raised eyebrow. Her dad is dating the girls' football coach AKA "Miss Bitchcock". Saz's approach to everything is sarcasm and watching her trying to flirt is the most hilarious/cutest thing ever seen on this planet. Holli has a serious anger management problem and is basically raising her siblings on her own since her mom is perpetually high on some pill or another. Amber is the girliest girl who ever girled and a little dense, but the sweetest person ever. She is also a total pushover (especially when it comes to her boyfriend's puppy dog eyes).

S1 has finishing airing and it has been renewed for S2.

Bomb Girls

It's a Canadian show about a group of women who work in a munitions factory during WWII. I would call this a feminist show because it is actually about the specific struggles each of these women face because of them being women. Kate ran away from her physically & emotionally abusive preacher father and has to unlearn a lot of crap she had been taught about herself. Betty (my favourite) is assertive and has a lot of swagger but she also knows she does not like boys the way she is supposed to so she is painfully aware that she can never really fulfill the typical female role of wife & mother society expects of her. She falls for Kate, which is at once wonderful to watch because they get very close as friends but also utterly heartbreaking. Gladys is a spoiled little princess who wants to do her part and work on the factory floor like the other women. She struggles with family expectations and her desire to do actual work instead of swanning around like a socialite. Lorna is in charge of the women working in the factory. She is strict and no-nonsense and keeps herself mostly apart. Her husband came home from WWI in a wheelchair and a serious case of PTSD so he can neither physically nor mentally support her. She is basically holding it all together while trying not to fall apart. Vera is confident, loves men and sex, is very into fashion and makeup, and is the center of every party until she has a terrible accident on the factory floor. She has to put herself back together in the aftermath when the person looking back from the mirror is not the same anymore.

S1 is amazing and I can rec it without qualifiers (though I wish at least one of the main characters had not been white to add that dimension to the show), but S2 did lose its focus for me and the writing suffered. It's been canceled.

Re: Things you should watch

[colls]

Bomb Girls sounds really good, it's too bad to hear it struggled in season 2. Would you say watching season 1 alone would be satisfying enough or are there plot threads into season 2 that are worthwhile despite the lack of focus?

Re: Things you should watch

[acari]

My problem with S2 was that it felt rushed. S1 took its time developing the characters and the plot felt organic, everything grew out of the characters where in S2 things seemed to happen to the characters to create drama. But it was still enjoyable overall because the women were just such interesting and complex people. S2 is still heaps better than lots of other shows, though. And they added a non-white factory girl as a regular character. And Betty got a girlfriend. Judging from your icons and the kind of female characters you seem to go for, I am pretty sure you would like it.