Very brave, very mindful - an exploration of Such Brave Girls and what it gets right about girls being unfairly blamed for ‘Daddy issues’
I’m perhaps a bit late to the party with the ‘mindful’ part of the title, sorry, it was just a way to link the BBC comedy series Such Brave Girls (the topic of the blog, as is mentioned in the title) and mental health awareness, as that's a major theme of the series. It’s hard to even know where to start with trying to describe a show like SBG but I’ll give it a go (without hopefully spoiling too much). The show came out last year, and stars Kat Sadler (who also created the series) and her irl sister, Lizzie Davidson, who, funnily enough, play sisters Josie and Billie (respectively). There’s a lot of talent involved in the show, generally, as Simon Bird, of The Inbetweeners fame, directed the show and Louise Brealey (who plays Deb, the Mum of Josie and Billie) appeared in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , Sherlock and Bleak House . The show itself is a pretty dark and extreme one in a lot of ways as it deals with topics such as mental health, trauma, death and abortion...