TV series that have had an effect on you…

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Just musing about this. Most memorable would have to be The Americans, Orange is the New Black and Handmaid’s Tale. Not just the imagery/storylines/characters but the soundtracks too. Which shows have stayed with you long after they’ve finished?

It’s a sin, absolutely enlightening.
There’s been storylines in certain tv shows which have been good and well put across..

I'm surprised to see so many people say the Handmaid's Tale. I watched some of it, but it was whitewashed to make sitautions that have pretty much happened to Indigenous people and POC more palatable . I really disliked it.

As a teen My So Called Life really affected me, the death in particular.

More recently The Wrong Kind Of Black.

The Missing - still harrowing years later thinking back

Friends - my comfort series

Vicar of Dibley - nothing quite like it - so cosy and warming

@NetflixCompleted

Forgot to add Inside no9. The series is absolutely genius and twists on each episode. Some episodes are very disturbing but some episodes really stay with you

Ooh yes the episode of sardines was excellent, what a twist and a grim ending!

This Life
Certain episodes of Casualty
It’s a Sin (upset me for days after I binge watched it)

I'm surprised to see so many people say the Handmaid's Tale. I watched some of it, but it was whitewashed to make sitautions that have pretty much happened to Indigenous people and POC more palatable . I really disliked it.

The whole point of the Handmaids Tale is that every situation WRT the women's suffering is happening somewhere in the world at the moment. Or has happened before. Margaret Atwood stipulated that she only wanted stories included of things that haven't been made up, but that are part of women's history of oppression.

Squid Game. I planned to binge watch it but had to slow down as some episodes were so harrowing I had to take a break. Episode 6 in particular is upsetting.

Black Mirror “Shut up and dance” episode haunted me for weeks, particularly as there was a real life case of someone doing a similar crime.

Detectorists was wonderful

Ghosts I watched the first two series 3 times with my 11 year old, perfect humour for us

White Lines was a great nostalgia trip and exciting to watch

After Life made me cry, and laugh, loads

Chernobyl , absolutely mesmerising.

The whole point of the Handmaids Tale is that every situation WRT the women's suffering is happening somewhere in the world at the moment. Or has happened before. Margaret Atwood stipulated that she only wanted stories included of things that haven't been made up, but that are part of women's history of oppression.

No point ing at me. I'm allowed to have an opinion, and in my opinion the show was utterly whitewashed and people are outraged because its mainly white women it's happening to in the show. It's been happening to my people for centuries, but that's not worthy of being discussed, stick a bunch of white women on a fictional show and it upsets everyone though.

However, if we're going back in time . . .

GBH with Robert Lindsay/Michael Palin

Cracker

ooooh they were both outstanding!

@ABCeasyasdohrayme I'm not saying you can't have an opinion I was clarifying the show's intentions for you

There were plenty WOC in THT. Not just 'a bunch of white Women’ but FYI white women suffer oppression too. I'm fucking sick of people clamouring to shut down and minimise women's experience because of .

You'd fucking hate me. I'm a white woman and was raped by a black man. Should I STFU about it?

First season of the missing…had recently had a baby and the missing child narrative touched me so badly that I still get the shivers thinking about it.

"Years and Years"

I don't watch much TV - but it worries me that this programme seemed extreme and frightening in it's fantastical predictions when I watched it.

When I remember that series it feels like nothing now - in comparison to this real actual life.

I know it's a comedy but the last 10 minutes of the 1st series of Derry Girls....I shook like a leaf for at least half an hour afterwards. Just close to the bone.

[quote YourFinestPantaloons]@ABCeasyasdohrayme I'm not saying you can't have an opinion I was clarifying the show's intentions for you

There were plenty WOC in THT. Not just 'a bunch of white Women’ but FYI white women suffer oppression too. I'm fucking sick of people clamouring to shut down and minimise women's experience because of .

You'd fucking hate me. I'm a white woman and was raped by a black man. Should I STFU about it?[/quote]
Wtf, sorry for your experience but that has literally nothing to do with anything I have said at all.

I think it's best to end this conversation here tbh, clearly it isn't going to help with whatever you're going through right now.

Cold Feet - absolutely loved it. Though haven't enjoyed recent series'

Inside number 9 - the episode with Sheridan Smith was unbelievably good. One of best episodes of anything ever.

Catastrophe - so funny, relatable and also poignant at times

The Missing - that first episode, the moment the boy goes missing and the immediate moments and days after stay with you for days.

Breeders season 1 - last couple of episodes in particular are very well done.

The Affair - thought this was brilliant, all seasons.

To the Lake - Russian pandemic zombie series, incredibly weird.

The end of the Fucking World.

It's a Sin

Chernobyl

Blackadder series 4 - the last episode!!!

@ABCeasyasdohrayme I'm not "going through" anything thanks but I'm sick of people telling women of any race to STFU about their experiences, or claim their experiences shouldn't be represented- it goes hand-in-hand with idiots who whine about 'Karen's' - and using completely false dichotomy in the process like "The handmaids tale whitewashes". It really doesn't. And then running away from the conversation when challenged.

It's all misogyny dressed up as wokeness and I'm utterly sick of it. It's only serves to silence women by making them scared of coming across as racist if they dare be a white woman who's experienced oppression.m at the hands of men of colour.

And FWIW, main or recurring characters of colour in the Handmaids Tale:

Moira
Luke
Hannah
Alma
Rita
Brianna
The lady who was Ofglen #2
Natalie
Sienna
Hannah's Martha

HTH

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Torchwood: children of earth. Its a 5 episode standalone series and its absolutely terrifying, mostly because you can 100% believe that those are the decisions the uk government would make in that situation. I couldn't look away and it played on my mind for a long time afterwards.

Also, The Handmaids Tale.

Yes same here torchwood children of Earth. It stayed with me for a very long time. Years & Years too.

Came on to say Torchwood Children of Earth but was beaten to it

Another for Inside No 9. The episode with Sheridan Smith affected me so much I cried afterwards and won't watch it again

Also a drama from a few years back called One Night or something. Showed an incident from different viewpoints. Tragic ending

Mad Men - probably the most well realised “world” and full bodied cast of characters of any show I’ve seen, it just sucks you in.
The Office (UK)
Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes
This Life
I still think about that scene with Christopher Eccleston and Robert Carlyle in Cracker - I was only a child (not sure why I was allowed to watch it!) but I still think about it!
Spaced - I remember feeling a bit stunned to have found a comedy that was a bit like living in my head

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However, if we're going back in time . . .

GBH with Robert Lindsay/Michael Palin

Cracker

ooooh they were both outstanding!

Bloody hell. I'd forgotten about GBH.

It's A Sin absolutely captured the time. Colin's storyline absolutely broke me.

I agree with Detectorists, it’s the only series I’ve rewatched.