7.530 minSeason 1 • Episode 7
LatestSome weeks later, Sally and Emma arrive at a plush Scottish hotel for their honeymoon. Sally falls ill and thinks she may have food poisoning but in fact she is pregnant. 8 months later Sally and Emma bump into Nigel and his new girlfriend.
Sally is a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for ten years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally undergoes a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?
Acting
Julia Davis's Emma is a masterclass in terrifying charisma
Writing
Dialogue so awkward you'll need to pause and recover
Direction
Julia Davis directs with surgical precision for discomfort
Creators
Julian Barratt, Catherine Shepherd, Julia Davis, Alex Macqueen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Julia Davis and Julian Barratt are real-life partners; their on-screen disgust is deliciously acted. The whole series was written in six weeks after Davis had a dream about a woman stealing someone's life.
Sally4Ever belongs to a wave of British cringe-comedy (think Fleabag, Catastrophe) that uses humor to excavate female desire without sanitizing it—Emma is essentially a femme fatale for the wellness era.
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