Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestChris has money worries and searches for a new flatmate. Alex and Jenny look after Grant while he deals with the lump on his testicle. Michelle is forced to choose between fame and friendship.
Follows the trials and tribulations of a group of twentysomething friends in Manchester, facing the decision to either settle down or carrying on partying.
Acting
Sheridan Smith's pre-stardom chaos energy is magnetic
Writing
Susan Nickson's Mancunian dialogue bites harder than it should
Production
2006 Manchester looks authentically grimy and glorious
Creator
Susan Nickson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Susan Nickson's follow-up to Two Pints of Lager, essentially creating a shared universe of northern working-class twenty-somethings before 'shared universes' were a marketing term.
Sheridan Smith was already becoming a stage star during filming; she reportedly learned her lines for both this and Legally Blonde: The Musical simultaneously, which explains Michelle's barely-contained manic energy.
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