THIS LIFE !!! Repeating on BBC 4!!

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OMG just flicking thru TV guide..... Monday night!!

They are on for the next few nights at 10pm. BBC4 are spoiling us with all 11 episodes this week

I started a thread. Didn’t see this one 😳😳

But loving Watching again

I watched it 23yrs ago when I was 23

I graduated in 96 (nothing at all to do with law) and it all looked very glamorous compared with my work which was graduate level, but rural. It made me wish I was back in halls/housing instead of a pretty cottage in the countryside (but only for an hour a week)

Another late night for me

I started a thread too...

I remember the build up to the last ever episode and wondering if the wedding was going to take place.
And then the whole thing was about Millie and Egg.
Warren and 'outstanding' was possibly the best ever ending of any TV series.

Egg's dad is now Leonard in The Archers.

Anyone see this in the Guardian today? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/04/people-say-its-the-reason-they-became-a-lawyer-the-stars-of-this-life-on-their-era-defining-show
Natasha Little's take on Rachel's character is interesting. Very much at odds with how I remember taking her (I haven't watched the reruns yet, but did watch it when it was first rerun in the early 00s).

Cool article, thank you!

at “Jack Davenport: With Miles, I realised that the more I leaned into his essential twatness, the better things would be. Amy [the writer] had met her fair share of insufferable, entitled, ex-public schoolboys who had a kind of cluelessness, which in some ways could be, I suppose, briefly charming if you were feeling charitable. Essentially, though, he was a complete git.”

How on earth did she not go on to become a major star?? I think she did tons of theatre work rather than telly.

Millie just makes me want to punch her- no idea why, she just irritates the hell out of me.

I'm on episode one- full frontals and full on bush, it was so long ago Brazilians weren't a thing then

I'm coveting Anna's leopard print coat again, after all these years!

Yes, 'essential twatness'

Didn't Jack play another variation of Miles in an early-00s comedy series? Peter Townsend from The Crown was also in it IIRC.

Miles, Egg and/or Warren.

I SO would!

Not so much Jo or Ferdy 😝

Blimey, this is what Jo looks like now!

Jason Hughes really was rather good-looking wasn't he? He always reminded me a bit of Ralph Fiennes.

Does anyone know if series 2 is going to be shown too? I’ll be a bit gutted if we only get series 1

@QueenOfTheAndals it was Coupling

I loved This Life and couldn't wait for every episode. No such thing as catch up back then, if you wanted to binge watch (we didn't) you had to record them on your Video Cassette Recorder and save them up.

But how dated it's looking and sounding! "Poof love"?

And some of the uncomfortably laddish banter within earshot of the girls, I sort of hope that wouldn't happen now in similar social circles. Am I kidding myself?

Enjoying watching this again. Anna is indeed "outstanding" as she has the best lines and delivery. Warren second imo. Egg and Millie are OK. He's very laddish as was a general type at the time and quite immature, she's so annoyingly perfect. Very much opposites. I would say it's one of the best BBC dramas. That and the much more recent A Very English Scandal. Love Kira too and the newer characters in Series 2. I think Graham was in the Russell T Davies series from a few years ago and was excellent in that too. As you can tell, I'm a massive fan!

They got burgled, everyone's rooms were trashed - Anna, sitting on her bed surrounded by chaos, said she didn't notice anything different - as her room always was a complete mess. Brilliant!

I found it still quite good, and actually Warren's sexuality was treated in a more open way than most modern TV. It's not glossy at all.
The smoking is surprising with modern eyes - the past is a different country.
Oh and I read an interview which talked about the days when "5 young professionals could rent a house by Southwark bridge". Well a few years before I was having to live at home and do a long commute as there was no way I could afford to rent in London (having left home for Uni before). It was a fantasy house even then.

Kira who is played by Luisa Bradshaw White and plays the exact same character in EastEnders.

And Grange Hill?

MollyButton my DH lived in a similar house/set up in Islington as late as the early eighties. Doable, but only because they had had the tenancy for years so the rent stayed low.

Why are they all crammed into that one living-room/kitchen, at the front of the house?

Surely a house that size would have at least one further reception/dining room, and a separate kitchen at the back.

Or are houses like that just very tall but really shallow?