Having rapidly consumed the first season of award-winning British sitcom Chewing Gum (available on Netflix) last week, I wasn’t immediately sure what I had thought of it. Chewing Gum stars Michaela Coel (also the series’ writer) as Tracey Gordon, a 24-year-old shop assistant living with her mother (Shola Adewusi) and sister (Susan Wokoma) on a London housing estate. The plot follows Tracey as she ventures outside the confines of her conservative Christian upbringing in search of life experience, and specifically sex. Grotesque and gritty, the show pulls no punches when it comes to sex or gross-out humour. A cast of over-the-top characters and Tracey’s fourth-wall-breaking asides to the viewer give Chewing Gum a kind of absurd comic book feel.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 04, 2017 02:37 UTC