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Just watched this new comedy on BBC Canada and liked it very much. Always been fond of Dawn French and she's turned into a terrifying force of nature in this. Not sure when it came out in the UK?
Missed the first few minutes but it's by the writer of Men Behaving Badly, Simon Nye; that was one of my favourite comedies, tears running down the face, funny now and then.
This is set in a small West Coast village (Cornwall? Devon?) and French runs a post office with her girlfriend. Yep; the main characters are middle aged lesbians. Not usual for a sitcom as this Guardian article points out (though Willow and Tara on BtVS don't get mentioned in the list of gay couples on TV. Boo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,815912,00.html
The scenery is breathtaking as well. Feel homesick. Not that I lived anywhere like that (about as far from the sea as you can get in the UK, actually) but, you know. It's in the blood. Sea faring nation ;-)
What I found enlightening is that Nye says of Men Behaving,
"It's a relief to be able to write about it in an upfront way, especially after years of doing Men Behaving Badly. Nobody ever picked up on it, but Men Behaving Badly was about a same-sex relationship. Everyone latched on to the lad thing, but to me there was always a significant homoerotic content in the relationship between Gary and Tony. You always got the impression that they'd rather be left alone together, but that was something that they could never admit to themselves. Wild West is a big step on from that."
MBB was slash. It all makes perfect sense now. ::grin:: Wait till I tell David...
Missed the first few minutes but it's by the writer of Men Behaving Badly, Simon Nye; that was one of my favourite comedies, tears running down the face, funny now and then.
This is set in a small West Coast village (Cornwall? Devon?) and French runs a post office with her girlfriend. Yep; the main characters are middle aged lesbians. Not usual for a sitcom as this Guardian article points out (though Willow and Tara on BtVS don't get mentioned in the list of gay couples on TV. Boo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,815912,00.html
The scenery is breathtaking as well. Feel homesick. Not that I lived anywhere like that (about as far from the sea as you can get in the UK, actually) but, you know. It's in the blood. Sea faring nation ;-)
What I found enlightening is that Nye says of Men Behaving,
"It's a relief to be able to write about it in an upfront way, especially after years of doing Men Behaving Badly. Nobody ever picked up on it, but Men Behaving Badly was about a same-sex relationship. Everyone latched on to the lad thing, but to me there was always a significant homoerotic content in the relationship between Gary and Tony. You always got the impression that they'd rather be left alone together, but that was something that they could never admit to themselves. Wild West is a big step on from that."
MBB was slash. It all makes perfect sense now. ::grin:: Wait till I tell David...