What It Feels Like For A Girl on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand S1E1 and S1E2 – What It Feels Like For A Girl is a wild, anarchic Y2K spin on a coming-of-age drama, inspired by the acclaimed memoir of the same name by the award-winning writer and journalist Paris Lees.
It’s a new millennium – Madonna, Moloko and Basement Jaxx top the charts, and there’s a whole world to explore. But teenager Byron (Ellis Howard) is stuck in a small working-class town that hasn’t been the same since the coal mine shut in the 80s.
Sick of mam, sick of dad, sick of being beaten up for “talkin’ like a poof”.
Byron needs to get away and doesn’t care how. Life explodes in a rush when Byron escapes to Nottingham’s kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands’ premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die (Laquarn Lewis).
Byron is adopted into Lady Die’s hilarious and chaotic family of trouble-makers – “The Fallen Divas”. Between them, they beg, steal and skank their way on a rollercoaster ride of hedonism at the heart of the UK’s early 2000s club scene. The party can’t last, though, and when Byron is seduced by bad-boy Liam (Jake Dunn), a shocking encounter occurs that will change life forever.
Series One, Episode One:
It’s the Dawn of the new Millennium and rebellious teenager Byron is determined to escape their small town at any cost. They find their lifeline in the most unlikely of places.
Series One, Episode Two:
Byron roams Nottingham in search of Max, where they find belonging among a group of hedonistic misfits, but bad boy Liam threatens to throw everything up in the air.
What It Feels Like For A Girl on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand – Australian Premiere / Friday 14 November at 11.00pm and 11.55pm (8 Parts)
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What It Feels Like For A Girl on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand S1E1 and S1E2
