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Starts tonight 10pm on Ch4. Its a British drama about the porn industry. Good cast. I've seen the trailer and it looks promising so thought I would share.

I haven't laughed yet- just me?

I thought it was excellent, whilst being shocking and depressing at the same time. I don't think it's meant to be funny is it, I thought it was a drama? The cast are all tremendous.

I personally thought it was awful

I'm not sure what I thought.
Yes it looked funnier in trailer. But I didn't really like the storylines. I like dark drama but this seems strange.

Apparently Sheridan Smith was originally supposed to play the lead. Not sure if she would have done such a good job as Hayley Squires?

I didnt think it was going to be so OTT
With the makeup/ sets.
Maybe I thought it was going to be like hotel rooms etc

Tuned in expecting a comedy drama along the lines of Shameless.

This i was NOT expecting. Really really dark.

Really dark, not what I was expecting at all. Though I did laugh in some places, just not as much as I thought I would. Love the lead character, though not what she said to her daughter about what had happened with her bf that morning. I'm guessing her views are slightly skewed.
It'll be interesting to watch the rest of the series (only 4 episodes in all I read) to see how it pans out.

All episodes are available on All4 I think?

Very thought provoking and quite shocking and dark really.

I thought it was excellent. Not what I was expecting but will definitely tune in next week.

I wasn't expecting a comedy - after all there isn't much to find funny about the porn industry.

@LimitIsUp

I wasn't expecting a comedy - after all there isn't much to find funny about the porn industry.

You must have been one of the only people that wasn’t as it was clearly advertised as one.

Didn't see any adverts

But what's light and frothy about the adult 'entertainment' business 🤷‍♀️

@LimitIsUp

Didn't see any adverts

But what's light and frothy about the adult 'entertainment' business 🤷‍♀️

You can say that about any comedy. Replace ‘adult entertainment business’ with ‘bullying’, ‘drugs’ or ‘murder’ and lots of other ‘negative’ connotations and it would wipe out half the comedy shows and films out there.

And if you didn’t see or read any adverts about it that clearly advertised it as a comedy (hence all the ‘i wasn’t expecting that’ comments littered in this thread and in the reviews after the first episode) how could you have been ‘expecting’ anything?

Its marketed as a bleak comedy
I found it cringeworthy and not amusing at all

Sorry I started another thread on this, not because I watched as I assumed if it was C4 after 10pm they would going all out to be "shcoking".

But a friend who watched it, and I also saw on twitter, that thinking there is humour in a young girl being raped, her mother telling her its because she didn't set boundaries, and a woman suffering physical harm just for a porn clip seems way beyond anything.

And the worst part is know that most women will see this as being about the harm porn does, but most men will see it as confirmation that its all just good fun.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4043930-Adult-Material-on-C4-did-anyone-watch

Jane Garvey interviewed a couple of women involved in this on WH the other day. It didn't make me want to watch it

@stumbledin I think that’s where a lot of the complaints came in, because how it was advertised is completely different as to what the show is. But to be clear, of all those parts that you’ve mentioned that your friend saw were NOT presented in a funny or humorous way at all, they were very dark and serious moments which is why people were so shocked that the adverts gave no hint of it being like that.

Have you ever seen Muriel’s Wedding? I remember being deflated after watching that because it was advertised as a laugh along comedy starring a clumsy woman called Muriel and what it actually was was a bleak and at times depressing film involving suicide and someone getting cancer, the total opposite of what it was presented as. That’s what I thought after watching this. I’ll continue to watch it but will be more “on guard” next episode knowing what the subject matter of the programme now contains.

On one level I think you are right CitizenFame.

So when I first saw Thelma and Louise in a cinema most of the audience was laughing, but almost immediately I started feeling tense and angry and couldn't see why anyone would think it was "funny".

So the concern seems to be that the "values" being portrayed are really disturbing.

And for some it will just confirm attitudes about women colluding in their own harm.

(I'm beginning to think I am going to have to watch but I really dont want to!)

I will have to take a look at this. I've been watching The Deuce recently, a drama about the porn industry in 70s New York. It's a very tough watch. The women were completely controlled by pimps and there's so much shady history with the mafia etc.

But a friend who watched it, and I also saw on twitter, that thinking there is humour in a young girl being raped, her mother telling her its because she didn't set boundaries, and a woman suffering physical harm just for a porn clip seems way beyond anything.

And the worst part is know that most women will see this as being about the harm porn does, but most men will see it as confirmation that its all just good fun.

Without wanting to spoiler the mother daughter conversation about rape is addressed at the end.

I don’t think anyone who watched this could see it as confirmation it’s all good fun....

I thought it was an excellent commentary on relationships and consent.

For anyone who’s only watched the first one or even two, I would say do watch to the end.

It develops into something very different from the first episode.

Just watched the first episode. I thought it was brilliant. Much better than I thought it would be.

I was prepared for it to be very black humour which it is , and then it starts off that way and develops into quite a different direction.
It's questioning the issues of stealth rape and consent and the way women can be viewed - those scenes are definitely not supposed to be comical!

I did have to look away a couple of times at the scenes with Amy near the end. It was a hard watch.

I believe it is going to get darker so may be triggering and best avoided for some.

Hmmm. Returning to the thread I started to report back that I watched the first episode but will leave it there. As PPs have said up thread, the trailer does not reflect the actual programme. It's just not my cup of tea.