It also has teenagers talking to each other like teenagers, not like thirty year olds reading a clever script. They are awkward, and stammer, and fail to say stuff they want to say, and screw up without it being an after-school special.
Warning, if you need one: sexual assault plotline, but it's not in any way played for titillation or lightly. One of the best TV drama treatments I've seen.
(I keep thinking of more) And the central love story I just adore. Two people who are very imperfect and again frequently screw up in various ways, but who try to prioritise their marriage (in the face of other priorities pulling at them), and work damn hard at it and love each other deeply; they are each other's rock, even when they go through those "I love you but I don't like you very much right now" phases. Their issues don't get all neatly resolved at the end of each episode with a twee little moral; they weave throughout the seasons and series.
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Date: 2009-09-16 03:27 am (UTC)Warning, if you need one: sexual assault plotline, but it's not in any way played for titillation or lightly. One of the best TV drama treatments I've seen.
(I keep thinking of more) And the central love story I just adore. Two people who are very imperfect and again frequently screw up in various ways, but who try to prioritise their marriage (in the face of other priorities pulling at them), and work damn hard at it and love each other deeply; they are each other's rock, even when they go through those "I love you but I don't like you very much right now" phases. Their issues don't get all neatly resolved at the end of each episode with a twee little moral; they weave throughout the seasons and series.