"What It Feels Like for a Girl" is a long way from your "typical female bildungsroman", said Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian . The eight-part series has been adapted for television from Paris Lees' "excellent" memoir recalling her life as a working-class teenager called Byron growing up in a small Nottinghamshire town.

Seen by others as a boy, our protagonist's early gender dysphoria is "angrily dismissed by their macho father", and the idea of one day living openly as a woman feels unfathomable. But Byron's eventual transition isn't what makes this show an "extraordinary and at times deeply disturbing account of a partly misspent youth".

Unlike a typical coming-of-age tale that "moves linearly towards success and validation", morality is presented as something that's "murky and fluid,

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