Tamsin Greig is supposed to answer the questions. But the star of BBC One’s Riot Women begins with one of her own. “What’s your unadulterated unfiltered, unmediated initial response? Come on, be brave.”

So I tell her: I love Riot Women , I say. I love the whole idea of it, what it’s saying, whose voices it’s amplifying, that it’s written by Sally Wainwright , and that it’s starring all of you guys. Seriously, what’s not to love? Better still, it’s all true.

The series focuses on five women, each dealing with some combination of the menopause , complex relationships with kids and partners, aging parents, career disappointments, dating catastrophes, imminent retirement, decades of unresolved trauma, and feeling invisible or unloveable. When they form a punk band, they express their

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