There’s a surreal dream ballet about a teenager sucking off men for crumpled fivers in a public loo less than 20 minutes into the first episode of How It Feels Like For A Girl, and it’s brilliant. It’s also pretty out there for a BBC production that also features more stunt penis than all three seasons of The White Lotus combined. This is post Watershed TV on steroids.
What It Feels Like For A Girl is an adaptation of Paris Lee’s 2021 memoir of the same name, recalling her teen years as a young person she calls Byron. Loosely adapted from and riffing off her real life, she places Byron in Hucknall, a bus ride away from Nottingham.
