Lip Service

BBC3's excursion into lesbian territory...set in Glasgow, an appropriate location - Glasgow is rather popular with lesbians...but, not like these ones...

Episode 1 - good actresses, duff script and dreary TV direction...it doesn't exactly leave you biting at the bit for...

Episode 2 - no improvement on the script front - if anything, it's worse: the sudden lesbian relationship accompanied by the let's-work-together-and-live-happily-ever-after storyline is, after one night of passion, ridiculous and redundant. The most outstanding feature of this episode is how remarkably bad all the male actors are...wooden ham. It's not looking good for....

Episode 3 - and still it trundles on...a little bit of mystery has been injected into the proceedings...is it enough to keep the interest going for...

Episode 4 - oh dear...it's falling apart - all those unnecessary peripheral scenes...and, who needs a friend like Frankie - she's utterly vile - not exactly looking forward to...

Episode 5 - the penultimate episode...rapidly moving along to...

Episode 6 - the revelation isn't exactly revelatory - you could see it coming a mile off.

It all sounds rather negative - doesn't it?

Well, in fairness, if 3 hours were cut out of this...it could have been a decent wee drama. It really is well-filmed.

Get rid of the silly actress, the nerdy writer...the excruciatingly badly written literary agent...the sexuality switching scenes, the stuck in the lift scene, the pathetic attempts at comedy...ad nauseam.

Basically, employ a script editor - or, at least, a better one.

What do we know?!? By public demand - there is a second series...!

Trailer...