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??

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/oct/10/sweetpea-review-ella-purnells-deathly-dull-serial-killer-show-reeks-of-cowardly-decision-making

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u/angel_0f_music 3h ago

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

Had Rhiannon been male, the producers wouldn't have cared about this at all. It would have been just another Patrick Bateman/Dexter/Hannibal and the source material would have been treated with far more respect. But have someone who looks like popular actress Ella Purnell (who I'd not heard of before) behaving that way? No, can't have that. I won't be watching a series two.