Alice's Fridge

yo i love fleabag but you know….chewing gum was a show that dealt with a lot of the same themes and plot beats (older british millennial woman, addresses the camera and us as she stumbles through her confusing relationship with sex and feminism and family) around the same time (2015-17). chewing gum even had identical roots as a piece of one-woman theatre written and produced by the leading woman who then adapted it for tv, has identical types of scenes wherein tracey addresses the camera while on the toilet/bord or panicked during sex, also centres on a sister/older sister dynamic where the older sister must leave a bad relationship, and even has the exact same episode structure and amount…i could go on but you get the idea. this is not a post accusing pwb of stealing from michaela coel or something (i love both shows so much). but i think its QWHITE obvious which “messy millennial woman” stories ppl believe are “new” and “fresh” and worthy of acclaim and it isn’t stories centring on visibly unapologetic working-class black women.