Between bursts of laughter, that’s how real-life sisters Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson describe the new series of their BBC comedy Such Brave Girls.
“Being able to have schemes and do twisted things and [to] come from a female perspective, that was really exciting,” says Sadler, who wrote the Bafta-winning dark comedy.
Such Brave Girls follows sisters Josie (Sadler) and Billie (Davidson) who, along with their mum Deb (Louise Brealey), are desperately trying to keep their heads above water financially and their relationships afloat.
Despite the rave reviews for series one, the siblings were unsure how the series would be received. “We do talk about a lot of taboo subjects,” Davidson says of the comedy, which addresses mental health, parental abandonment and abortion in a not-so-sensitive way.
In series one, we see Billie go to an abortion clinic dressed as a witch while another episode sees mum Deb tell Josie her “haunting presence” is dampening Deb’s boyfriend’s libido.
The series took home two Baftas – one for best scripted comedy and one for emerging talent: fiction for Sadler.
