First viewed : 1990
I first watched this on the recommendation of a work colleague who said it was near the knuckle for a primetime sitcom.
The series starred real-life childhood friends Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as a pair of convict wives in Essex and Lesley Joseph as their sex-starved cougar neighbour Dorian. My friend was right ; the series did push boundaries with its frank discussion of sexual matters and innuendo. That kept me watching for a while but eventually I pulled out, partly due to the over-exposure of Joseph who was determined to make the most of her late-arriving fame.
The series originally finished in 1998 but was successfully revived in 2014 on ITV and continues.
Totally with you on the Lesley Joseph comment. I remember the early series of this, but it soon got old quickly. Staggered that it continues to do so well on a revival, almost like a sitcom Loose Women *shudders* and I believe Quirke employs her own son in the show now
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