RIOT WOMAN - sun bbc 1 9pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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New drama for 6w which sounds like it will be a right laugh with singing music pmt drink drugs and rock and roll !!

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The Happy Valley creator has turned her darkest hour into a rebellious tale of midlife women uniting in musical anarchy. The team behind the highly awaited drama talk vodka, rock’n’roll and hot flushes

Riot Women, Sally Wainwright’s hotly awaited new drama, will be billed as a menopause show, and that’s fine – a show can be proud of such a shorthand in 2025, and besides, there’s a lot of menopause in it.

Lorraine Ashbourne stars as Jess, a smart-mouthed pub landlady, leading her best life (house full of grown kids and grandkids, a boyfriend who does literally everything she says. “I have, in Jerry, written a weak man,” says Wainwright, contemplatively, as if it’s the first time that’s ever happened. “But he’s very likable”).

Nonetheless, Jess is overwhelmed – like all of us – by the state of the world, and decides to start a rock band for a refugee fundraiser.

She needs bandmates, naturally, so enter Tamsin Greig as Holly, a retiring police officer

Joanna Scanlan as Beth, a ground-down teacher and

Amelia Bullmore (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/amelia-bullmore) as Yvonne, a midwife with a stick up her arse.

They’re joined by Rosalie Craig as Kitty, a very hard-living shoplifter, significantly younger than the others

– she’s late 30s/early 40s in this role, the others are all mid-to-late 50s – but also menopausal.

Her USP is incredible charisma and a stunning voice, belted out at pub karaoke with vivacious rage, when she isn’t drinking neat vodka straight from the bottle or vandalising cars.

Riot Women, the band, come together at once – the show starts off with the energy of a one-last-heist drama.

They’re planning to do an Abba cover, until Beth rebels. She’s absolutely done with being nice. She’s been a competent pianist, accompanying school choirs all her life; she wants their music to express what they’re actually feeling. The songs they end up with – composed for the show by indie-punk two-piece ARXX – land in the bit of the Venn diagram where punk meets the menopause: an absolutely uncompromising “fuck you”.

Across the six episodes, we're set to see how their journey to punk-rock stardom goes from penning their first original song to discovering that they've got a hell of a lot to say.

As per the series synopsis: "As they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, complicated parents, husbands who’ve buggered off, and disastrous dates and relationships, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives, and it’s going to make them question everything

The six-part series is a testament to the power of friendship, music, and the resilience of women who refuse to be silenced by age or expectation.

"As the story progresses, it’s more than music that binds them; a deeply potent, long-buried secret begins to surface – one that unexpectedly entangles Kitty and Beth, the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, in a complex triangle – and threatens to tear everything apart."

The series boasts a batch of familiar faces including Lorraine Ashbourne (Sherwood (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/sherwood-season-3-renewed-newsupdate/)), Amelia Bullmore (The Buccaneers), Rosalie Craig (Moonflower Murders (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/magpie-murders-season-2-release/)) and Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner), as well as Joanna Scanlan (After Love), Taj Atwal (Line of Duty), Chandeep Uppal (Holby City) and Macy-Jacob Seelochan (Shadow and Bone).

Further casting includes Anne Reid (The Sixth Commandment), Sue Johnston (The Royle Family), Peter Davison (Doctor Who), Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Angel Coulby (Merlin), Jonny Green (White Lines) and Ellise Chappell (Yesterday).

Tony Hirst (Hollyoaks), Shannon Lavelle (The Hardacres), Mark Bazeley (Broadchurch), Amit Shah (Happy Valley), Rick Warden (Red Eye), Ben Batt (Domina) and Natalia Tena (Harry Potter) also star.

Completing the cast are Melanie La Barrie (& Juliet), Oliver Huntingdon (Sherwood), Richard Fleeshman (The Sandman), Olwen May (A Very British Scandal), Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey), Nicholas Gleaves (Bodyguard) and Thomas Flynn (Masters of the Air).

E4 tonight

6w on and it’s the talent contest

It's taking all my energy not to binge the last two episodes.

I'm seeing red red red red

Another great episode

Glad kitty told the son a few home truths about beth

Tho also hard for him knowing she was 12 and prob abused

And glad told her ex to fuck off but he needs more comeuppance for punching her

Beth looked so much younger with some blonde and make up

All that arse action 😂 licking them pmsl

Why didn't take so long for someone to come to NISHA assistance. It was daylight when attacked and finally the scum policeman Rudy found her

He makes me sick. 😡😡

Taking pics and guessing he arranged the beating from his friends from what he said about Holly - I hope she wasnt raped as trousers down 🙀🙀🙀😢😢😢

3rd place against kittens and a dance group

Graham deserved to be hit the horrible man. His wife (dil mum) was looking at him weirdly

I bet she knew he said something that he deserved a wallop

Glad inz has been forgiven by Jess thi nothing to forgive iyswim

recap e4

https://reelmockery.com/riot-women-series-1-episode-4-recap/

again reel M doesn’t seem to like this 2/10

I’ve only been watching this because it’s Sally Wainwright and W Yorkshire. Until tonight! What a glorious episode, and we needed the three previous ones to set it up.

So many ‘ blink and you’ll miss them’ moments, and wonderful well-known actors in tiny parts just playing them so well. The detail is fabulous.

He doesn’t understand it. If he really did have a woman’s help to write it, I’d imagine she’s young and nowhere close to the age of the band, excluding Kitty.

So, who do we think is Kitty’s rapist/ Tom’s father?

So far I’d guess
A - Her own father
B - the Peter Davidson character, Tom’s father-in-law. Kitty seemed reminded of something when he forcefully said he ‘wanted to sleep with her’, as the reviewer coyly wrote.

No spoilers, please. Speculation welcome.

When Kitty punched the FIL character it was wondrous. Wish fulfillment, so empowering.

His wife's silence said it all. Later in the pub they were saying "do you think he said something lewd?"

Haven't we all had similar treatment at some time in our lives and felt so frustrated that about not being able to do anything.

I was wondering if it was Peter d as he was asking where she lived etx

then I wondered if her dad

so same as you @DarkNovemberBringsTheFog

I'm a woman, I'm post menopausal, and I am still struggling with this. I seem to like every other episode (1 and 3) but I didn't like last night's.

It is stuffed too full of different major dramas, and the plots don't have any time to breathe.

It has always been a feature of SW's work that the men are secondary characters and there are a lot of arseholes (fine with me!), but in her earlier work there were a few decent ones too. In this, the men are arseholes or so weak they may as well not exist. New male character arrives - oh look he's a leering aggressive creep too. I know it's about angry post menopausal women, but everything is so exaggerated I can't find much to identify with.

I have some sympathy with this. Jess's bloke is a prime example. He seemed to be a nice ordinary bloke. She dumped him quite meanly. Just realised I can't say any more because the rest is post episode 4!

@fallingangel yes we have all had something similar (and worse) happen. My frustration with those scenes was that it actually is possible to 'do something' without actually decking the bloke in front of a crowd. My usual technique was to 'accidentally' stamp on his foot.

I realise that Kitty is so damaged by her past that she over reacts to everything, so it was in character. But there is so much aggression in the show overall that it all just seems 'too much' (for me anyway).

I do hope horrible policeman is going to get caught out by the picture on his phone, and get everything that is coming to him.

I found it irritating but unsurprising that of course it was "Miranda" who got Jess and Inez talking again. I do hope it was deliberate writing on SW's part that he was the only one who couldn't hold his drink.

I found it a hard watch in some places, the awful awful police officer & what he did is reminiscent of what happened when the two sisters were murdered in a London park, officers guarding the bodies took photographs which were circulated truly horrific really hope he will be punished.
Peter Davidsons wife I reckon knows he is a wrongun, dunno could he possibly be involved in the previous abuse of Kitty I felt as though she sensed something familiar about him, glad Jess won’t be banging on about Inez now as that was getting on my nerves.

Inez is funny. Very blunt. I like people like that

Me too !

I do think he had something to do with the 3 beating her up

As soon as the police officer took the photos I thought that will be his downfall. These type of guys are so stupid when it comes down to it, they like to keep photos as trophies and that is how they get caught.

I’ve just realised… Peter Davidson’s wife is the mum from Outnumbered/the real and fictional Mrs Hugh Dennis.

Yes and she hasn't changed a bit. How refreshing to see all the women 50 plus without a face full of fillers.
<Jack The Rimmer looked a bit tweaked though >

Yes

I didn't know they were married in real life as well as Outnumbered!

I’m in. FFS the whinging about caps is ridiculous. Thanks as always @Blondeshavemorefun .💐

There’s a drama on Netflix that is quite old called ‘ life begins’ and Claire skinner is in that too ( seasons 1 and 2) and she doesn’t look much different either !
Also has Anne Reid in it playing a similar ish character to Holly’s mum, but she doesn’t have Alzheimer’s.

Are people still moaning