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With dark humor, odious characters, and outlandish plots, Such Brave Girls is the kind of show that viewers either love or hate. To enjoy it requires a strong stomach for secondhand embarrassment and suicide jokes. Its risky debut in 2023 paid off, winning audience acclaim and the 2024 BAFTA for
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The sudden success of sisters Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson with their startling comedy, Such Brave Girls, cannot be overstated. Neither had much of a career before the series — Sadler's most prominent credit was as a freelance comedy writer for hire on Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, and Davidson had
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One of the unsung silver linings of the 2020 pandemic is that it forced the BBC to think differently about what it greenlit when things began to return to a new normal in 2021. Between the need to restart production quickly and the Black Lives Matter movement prompting the public
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Such Brave Girls is bravely releasing the first images from Season 2 of the series, and the big headline, at least for a particular subsection of the viewership, is that Billie is now in possession of a tabby cat. Based on series creator and star Kat Sadler's own
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Such Brave Girls was a risky series for the BBC to commission in 2022. It was the debut series by comedian Kat Sadler, who had never starred in her own series, let alone one she was spearheading, writing, and executive producing. Moreover, the subject matter — about a deeply dysfunctional family,
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Such Brave Girls is going to have to get a little braver, as the BBC has commissioned the series for a second season. The Kat Sadler-penned series, which also stars the emerging writer, was a critical darling when it arrived in 2023. (Our own critic, Amy Amatangelo, admitted it was
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Even before the BBC bought out BritBox International to make it the new streaming home of the British Broadcast Corporation, the service had gone all in on BAFTA, signing on to become the exclusive streaming home of both the annual Film and Television Awards, along with picking up the Oliviers
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There are shows that are an acquired taste. And then there’s Such Brave Girls. The six-episode comedy, which debuts on Hulu, is so jarring that there can be no middle ground. Either you will delight in the show’s cringy, envelope-pushing comedy, or you will be horrified. The series,
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Kat Sadler's Such Brave Girls was initially put to pilot back in 2021 at the BBC as a test to see if the writer, then best known as part of the team working on Mel Giedroyc's reality comedy Unforgivable, could handle her own show. The resulting
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British comedies, by and large, have been the province of white male writers. From Monty Python to The Outlaws, most hit comedies from across the pond haven't featured much in the way of diversity, and what little has made it over to American shores, like Starstruck (created by