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FunTimes2020 · 05/10/2020 16:10

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. Smile

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Tormundsbeard · 11/10/2020 22:48

I thought Hayley Squires and Kerry Godliman were excellent.

Brixhambelle1 · 17/10/2020 20:51

I felt the final episode showed that she was prepared to do anything to get her daughter through Uni and keep her home for her children. There are times in life for many women when they consent to do things they don’t want to do, in order to keep their children safe or provide them with opportunities that they perhaps didn’t have.
There are women all over the world having sex to keep partners happy even though they don’t really want to do it.
I don’t think it’s right but I do think it’s representative of what life is like for many people. Not necessarily in the porn industry but in home life.

OlegBurov · 17/10/2020 21:08

@Tormundsbeard

I thought Hayley Squires and Kerry Godliman were excellent.
I agree, they were incredibly compelling.
WoobyWoo · 17/10/2020 21:46

It wasn’t what I was expecting either but I watched the whole thing. Hayley is so flawed you don’t know whether you’re rooting for her or wanting to shake her but I think that’s the idea, as a character she is damaged by her experiences and doesn’t always act in her own best interests.

The way you see her filming herself playing up for the camera then snapping back into real life and grumpily lighting a cigarette etc and slobbing around in no make up is exactly what I imagine its like. She switches a character on and off, even uses the different name with her close friends in the industry to protect her real self.

HeIenaDove · 22/10/2020 02:06

The first episode made me feel sick but im glad i stuck with it.

stumbledin · 28/10/2020 14:33

I ended up watching this and it was really stupid (but I think it was a Guardian review) to talk about it being a comedy.

Not sure what the programme makers were trying to say.

It started of looking as though it was going to be about a woman breaking away from an exploitative way of life, but then by the end it was all about a dedicated mother will do anything for her children.

So this woman had her husband pimpining off her doing porn but he was then unable to have sex with her as she had become this "object" so he could only wank off to her in a porn pose.

Her daughter having been ridiculed at school happily accepted her mother being abused on film to pay her uni fees? Seriously?!

And her own mother just seemed mildly concerned that she wasn't happy.

Middle class woman who in fact was a porn user took up her case to ..... ? Be a hypocrite.

Young woman she tried to mother in fact also exploited her.

And online people are saying things like a mother will do anything for her family, wasn't it wonderful. And her husband turned up to do a bit of DIY and they had sex and that was meant to be some sort of positive resolution?

Moral of the story seesm to be if you are working class and BAME woman you dont have a choice other than accept what men and the middle class say you can have, and that it be part of porn, and (as implied about the young woman) if you have been abused as a child somehow this is what you will end up doing.

What a horrible grubby programme. Just the sort of psuedo clever but ultimately exploitative programme that C4 is known for.

MercyBooth · 29/10/2020 02:40

@stumbledin I think you make some good points but this series also touched upon the fact that workers rights have been eroded. Yes she had other choices but i noted that when she was working in the coffee shop she needed time off to see a doctor and the employer/manager said no.

It reminded me of the time i was working in a retail job (ive done a few) and i was refused time off to get an abscess sorted. Because i was being sent on a training course was the reason given. A training course which was then cancelled.

I know this was only a small part of the drama but that zero hours coffee shop job also showed her being exploited..........just in a different way.

stumbledin · 29/10/2020 14:34

Agree with the point about lack or rights and being treated with respect.

But because this was porn and women were being harmed, it was worse. And I hate that sex work is just work, lets unionise.

Just wonder what the programme makers intentions were.

And worse still think a lot of people watched it and didn't think about the damage being done to women. It was just a story about a mum. Sad

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