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Lip Service - BBC 3

  • 20-10-2010 11:05pm
    #1
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    Did a search on this but didn't find anything. Anyone watch this show? It debuted earlier this month and I caught the second episode of it last night. It's about a group of lesbian women living in Glasgow and I guess it's the UK's answer to the L Word. I was surprised that the BBC commissioned it as some of the scenes are quite racy and the kind of thing you'd see more on Channel 4.

    From Wiki:
    Critical response

    The opening episode received mixed reviews from critics. Claudia Cahalane of The Guardian wrote that it was "hugely significant" for a drama to normalise lesbian and bisexual relationships, citing a study of BBC output which found that lesbians contributed to just two minutes of programming from a randomly selected 39 hours of broadcasts. While Cahalane expressed disappointment that the episode did not represent butch lesbians, she deemed it "important to recognise Lip Service for the great service it's doing to British lesbians."[5]

    Keith Watson of the Metro attacked the series' tokenism, suggesting that it included lipstick lesbian clichés to meet the BBC's diversity quota, and commenting that, "It was trying so hard to be modern and liberated but it felt tired and lazy".[6] The Independent's Amol Rajan criticized the episode's "pathetically vacuous plot", calling the series "spirit-cripplingly tedious". He expressed sympathy for the "clearly talented" cast, opining: "In trying to make a point about the importance of engaging with lesbian issues, this show ends up trivialising them. The lesbians are presented to us not as interesting people, or characters who warrant sympathy; rather, they matter purely because of their sexual preferences. That is immature, patronising, and unrealistic."[7] Evangelical pressure group the Christian Institute reported that the episode had prompted complaints from viewers over its sexual content.[8]

    It's on BBC Three right now for anyone interested. I think this is the one that originally aired last night.


Comments

  • #2
    xxshebeexx
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    I watched the first episode and bits and pieces after that. The acting was rather good, but the characters were so flat. They really could have done so much more with the talent they had! I felt like the whole point of the show was to have as many sex scenes as possible in an hour. They kept throwing lesbians, lesbians, lesbians - this show is about LESBIANS, look they're having SEX. It was rather cringeworthy and completely unnecessary. There's no subtlety at all. A waste really.


  • #3
    mike65
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    xxshebeexx wrote: »
    They kept throwing lesbians, lesbians, lesbians - this show is about LESBIANS, look they're having SEX. There's no subtlety at all.

    Sounds like many mens idea of a good hours tv! :pac:


  • #4
    xxshebeexx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭xxshebeexx


    mike65 wrote: »
    Sounds like many mens idea of a good hours tv! :pac:

    Ha explains why I was bored so!


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