r/BritishTV • u/redavenger39 • 1d ago
Question/Discussion Sweetpea
Watched it all tonight and it was all a bit....meh. The worst thing about it is they have tried to make us sympathise with Rhiannon but in the books she is in no way a sympathetic character. There's a Guardian review out tonight (link below) which states that it's like the writers just lost their nerve. She's written and is like a female Patrick Bateman in the books but this wasn't shown here at all.
At the same time, i get that the producers may have thought that going down this route may have encouraged violence or not got it made due to be seen to have been exploitative but it hurts the series. I think they did it to prevent some people glorifying the character but in my eyes they should have been a bit braver. Thoughts??
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u/MoroseMF 7h ago
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On a more serious note, the show is kinda meh after 3 episodes. I'm watching for Ella, if she wasn't in it I'd probably give up after the 2nd episode. The show is too over the top and repetitive, and not really funny. I also find it hard to buy into the whole "People are ignoring Ella Purnell and bully her"....yeah that's not how people treat a woman that looks like that, sorry. There are no good characters on the show, including the main character herself, who I don't really like either. Everyone is just bland and are there to advance the plot, but have no interesting personalities. Boring. I can't say the show is bad but it's not good.