The Duchess on Netflix

[dayswithaY]

Has anyone seen this? It's Katherine Ryan playing a single mum called Katherine, not sure how much is meant to be her. She wears fabulous clothes, lives in an amazing London house, owns her own bespoke pottery business with her equally cool friend, daughter looks like Greta Thunberg, and she has a lovely boyfriend who is devoted to her. So far, so realistic.

It seems to be another one of these female lead comedy dramas (I Hate Suzie, Fleabag, Sally 4 Ever), where the kooky main character ends up in various sexually degrading scenes but is just a free spirit who takes it all in her stride in designer clothes.

That said, it's drawing me in even though she makes jaw droppingly stupid life choices, it's full of stereotypes (school gate Mums, deadbeat Dads) and some of the cast can't act for toffee.

It seems to be another one of these female lead comedy dramas (I Hate Suzie, Fleabag, Sally 4 Ever), where the kooky main character ends up in various sexually degrading scenes but is just a free spirit who takes it all in her stride in designer clothes.

I’ve not seen I Hate Suzie yet but I cannot work out how you characterise the other two programmes like that. They have nothing in common with each other and neither fit your description.

Fleabag is about grief and self loathing and guilt. Sally 4 Ever is a wonderful piece of grotesque, another of Julia Davies’ gruesome creations.

My point was the actors in the shows I listed all seen to try and outdo each other with explicit and degrading sex scenes. It's almost as if the drama can't stand on its own without the female lead showing how outrageous and sexually daring she is.

I thought Sally 4 Ever was revolting and Fleabag was all about pushing boundaries. If you watch Suzie you will get the inevitable try hard sex scenes which don't really add anything to the plot they are just there to get people talking about the show.

I haven't been tempted to watch it at all and I like Katherine Ryan, her comedy is good if a bit narrow. I watched the trailer and didn't think her acting is up to much in it. Might be better in the episodes but it felt scripted rather than a natural sort of situation. Basically didn't carry it off at all.

Flea bag is great, it is funny and although sex is a central part of it you get a sense it is more about the character being dysfunctional and the black sheep in the series, who has also done things she isn't proud of. Not about being edgy at all.

Sally 4 Ever is meant to be revolting. That’s why it’s a grotesque. And the sex in Fleabag meant something more than edginess for the sake of it.

It’s obviously not what you took from watching those shows but we’ll have to disagree on what the sex scenes brought to each of them. It feels very reductive to me to ignore everything else in them though.

I love KR stand up but I lasted 5 mins with this series mainly because KR cannot act but also seemed way over the top.