The Derry Girls star is excellent alongside It’s a Sin’s Lydia West in her new sitcom about two millennial best friends – a masterclass in inventive scriptwriting
don’t know about you but I always dread watching the pilot episode of something, especially a comedy. There’s just so much to set up – and so often that setting up is done with all the subtlety of someone shouting “Wake up!” at a coma patient.
You’ve got to introduce at least one parent, and decide if they love them too much or if they’re mean. A surprise party. A silly costume. I’m shuddering just thinking about someone actually saying the line “Hey sis”. The actors don’t really know what they’re doing because they haven’t got a handle on their characters yet and as a result they always do at least one line-read in a way that’s just far too kooky.
A word on Coughlan, who is very excellent in this – she plays Maggie with big bombastic take-all-the-energy-in-the-room aplomb, until mental health hits and then she turns, playing grey and small and slithering with just as much skill.
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