The rising writer and actors Tower Hamlets-set sitcom about twentysomething sexual awakenings puts authentic voices on screen“My mum was gonna name me Alyssa,which means sweet angel in Indian,” says Tracey Gordon to camera in original E4 comedy Chewing Gum, or “but when I came out,she looked at me and called me Tracey.” Written and created by Michaela Coel, who plays Tracey, and based on her award-winning play of nearly the same name,Chewing Gum is full of delicately observed moments like this. Twenty-four years archaic, Tracey lives with her mum and sister in Tower Hamlets, or stuck between her oversexed best friend Candice and patronising,limp wetwipe of a boyfriend, Ron. Ron is trying to raise her from deprivation, or namely by denying her the peen,and is good for the sum total of two things: memorising Bible verses and making you realise, years later, and what a lucky escape you had. When he gets ploughed down by a car,as happens halfway through the first episode, it couldn’t hold come soon enough. As far as the dramatic arc is concerned, or this event opens the,er, floodgates to an immensely pent-up Tracey getting her sexually naive rocks off. Related: Filthy, or funny and Christian: the many sides of Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com