00:00This is Streamline, your weekly guide to what's actually worth watching across TV, film, and everything in between.
00:06If you're looking for something funny and heartwarming to get into this week, BBC comedy Daddy Issues is back for season two.
00:12You cannot send a flaccid c**t shot, okay? This looks like a baby rat that's fallen asleep on a scourer.
00:18To recap, the show follows 24-year-old Gemma.
00:21All hail the queen, Amy Lou Wood, who gets pregnant after a one-night stand in an airplane toilet.
00:26As far as opening scenes go, this one gives sex education a run for its money.
00:29So just don't watch it with your parents.
00:32Pregnant and friendless, Gemma has no choice but to have her hapless but well-meaning dad move into her flat with her.
00:38Season two picks up after Gemma's given birth, so she's trying to navigate the trials, tribulations, and leaky boobs of motherhood.
00:45Amy Lou Wood is the beating heart of this series.
00:48Most of us fell in love with her in sex education, white lotus, or that emoji she dropped under Sydney Sweeney's GQ interview.
00:55She's often playing the goofy, unfiltered comic relief.
00:58So seeing that familiar face weighed down by the exhaustion of motherhood hits surprisingly hard.
01:04Amy Lou Wood is just such a shining star in this show.
01:07Did you always have her in mind for Gemma?
01:10I know people always say this, but there's literally no one else in mind.
01:13When I first sent a pitch about this girl who gets pregnant and moves in with her dad, and they said,
01:18I want Amy Lou Wood to part.
01:20No one else.
01:21There's a lot of me in the origins of Gemma.
01:24But then Amy, as an actor, takes the character somewhere else.
01:28There's a tenderness to Gemma that isn't in me and probably isn't in my writing.
01:32I think she finds something else in between the lines that I have put there, and I think that is where the magic happens.
01:37And I like it before the police turn up.
01:39Yeah, I'm sorry.
01:40I can't do this without you, Dad.
01:42Amy is joined by a very funny ensemble cast, including Sharon Rooney from My Mad Fat Diary,
01:47David Flynn from The Inbetweeners, and Taj Atwell,
01:51who I spoke to about playing Gemma's chaotic best mate, Cherry.
01:54I feel like me and all my mates are really chaotic, so I was like, we're all like this.
01:58It was nice because we get to play off each other.
02:01We love what each other brings to the table as actresses, to our characters, and it's so freeing.
02:08Like, it's such a freeing process on this shoot.
02:10It's one of our favorite, we all say it's one of our favorite shoots because there's just so much freedom to explore your character,
02:15freedom to create something else, to improvise, to add little flourishes in to really own your character,
02:20and they really encourage us to own our character.
02:22Ask us, you know, what do you think?
02:24I feel like she kind of knows who she is, which I did not.
02:28At 25, you know, even though she's kind of navigating all these massive things,
02:34she's still more put together than I am now.
02:36You'll have me for a much younger woman.
02:38How much younger?
02:40She's 16.
02:41Playing Gemma's clueless dad turned flatmate is David Morrissey, or the governor without his eyepatch.
02:46Morrissey is a bona fide serious actor, and I'll admit, I was skeptical of his comedy chops at first,
02:51but he fully commits to the man-child bit, which is fun to watch.
02:55I'm going to be a granddad. These are happy tears.
02:59They are not happy tears.
03:00The show allows breathing space for some really touching moments between the two of them,
03:04which I think makes the comedic moments even more earned.
03:07My own Brassic for four years, and one of the things that I really found tapping into those
03:13more emotional moments is a really good thing, and I wouldn't have done it.
03:18If I had worked on Brassic, I don't think that's how I'd have written Daddy Issues.
03:20It would have been a slightly more peep show-y, and I love, that's no disrespect to Peep Show,
03:25it's my favorite of a sitcom, or something like Arrested Development,
03:27where it's a little bit arch, and everything, you know, you don't get to show those real emotions
03:32because everybody's so guarded, and I love those shows so much.
03:35But I think Brassic just gave me the ability to have moments of truth,
03:40and think you don't have to put a joke in it.
03:42You can have a bit where characters talk to each other, and you don't have to put a joke,
03:46and it's still a bit.
03:47He's not even visited yet, and you're going to ask Dad to smuggle a phone
03:50into prison up his a** canal?
03:52Yeah, and what if he enjoyed it?
03:55What I love about this show is its brutally honest depiction of female friendships.
03:59So for me, it sits alongside shows like Fleabag, Broad City, and Girls,
04:04in its depiction of female friendship as gloriously messy and complicated,
04:08which I think is the version that most of us actually recognize.
04:11It's a very relatable portrayal of what female friendship is actually like.
04:15I'm so glad you brought it up, because it's not this twee kind of cutesy,
04:18it's really cutthroat, they tell each other how it is,
04:21but also still so grounded in so many other ways,
04:24in so many, you know, they still communicate,
04:27they still want to make a friendship,
04:28and they still navigate all of the highs and lows of that age,
04:31and it's exactly what I know my friendships to be like,
04:36and you're still an anchor to each other.
04:39And the bond that you have, it's so easy and so natural.
04:43How did you build that bond off screen?
04:46Well, we're all like that on set anyway.
04:47I think that's why it comes across so well,
04:49because we are all like that together anyway.
04:52We're direct, we're ridiculous, we're silly,
04:56we're very comfortable being exactly who we want to be.
05:00It's then so easy to do your scenes off the back of that.
05:03Are you my appendix?
05:05Because I have no idea what you do,
05:06but I feel like I should take you out.
05:08Uh, yeah.
05:09In true demure British sitcom style,
05:12it's six short half-hour episodes per season.
05:15Super bingeable without loads of homework.
05:17In film news,
05:18aka the only news anyone's actually going to be talking about this weekend,
05:22Wicked For Good is out in cinemas,
05:24and everyone is appropriately losing their sh...
05:27My Local Cinema has 27 showings of this on Friday alone,
05:36who said cinema was dead.
05:38Clearly not the theatre kids who are finally enjoying their day in the sun.
05:41This film picks up where the last one left off,
05:43and follows Elphaba and Glinda as they embrace their new identities
05:46as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
05:49You probably couldn't get a more different version of female friendship to this if you tried.
05:53The latest film turns the stage musical's two-hour, 45-minute runtime
05:57into two films, totalling five hours.
06:00Yes, five.
06:01The reviews are mixed, to say the least,
06:04and it would be hard to live up to the magic of the first film.
06:06I mean, all the bangers are in the first act anyway.
06:08But if you're here for the sheer, unbridled chaos of the press tour,
06:12it's giving the first one a run for its money.
06:14The press tour for Wicked Part 1 didn't just promote the film,
06:18it became a cultural phenomenon in its own right.
06:21Not to go too meta, but there's actually a reference to holding space
06:24in Daddy A Shoe Season 2.
06:26People are taking the lyrics of Defying Gravity and really holding space with that.
06:31I didn't know that that was happening.
06:32I didn't know that was happening.
06:34I mean, I am in queer media.
06:36And I'm like, what the f***?
06:38This shows us that press and marketing are as big a part of the story as the film itself.
06:43That's what I wanted.
06:45Take Barbie, for instance.
06:46The marketing campaign reportedly cost $150 million.
06:50$5 million more than the production budget.
06:53The film required so much pink paint that it led to a global supply shortage.
06:58So cool.
06:58So if you're holding space for Cynthia protecting Ariana like she's the crown jewels,
07:02or Jonathan basking in his sexiest man alive win,
07:05the frenzy is sure to get bums in seats.
07:08I mean, we've all seen what bad marketing can do.
07:10Thanks for watching.
07:11We'll be back with another set of Streamline recommendations next week.
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