have your honor today I want to talk about the new program to channel for my mad fat diary those
programs based on the book my mad fat teenage diary and you know I've got to be honest I didn't
think that this is something I was going to enjoy well there is so type Ram that I thought I have
to go to watch and you know something I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish it may just be my
new addiction so for those of you who haven't seen it going around or haven't heard about it yet and
Ray has been in a psychiatric unit for four months he had a bit of a mental breakdown and she's
released she's 16 year old and it falls her life kind of being released as a as an outpatient and
how she's coping in the real world again and it sounds quite serious but it is it is you know it
is funny um which is a bit weird to be honest and I'll talk about that in a moment I had to kind of
get the balance right I'll go into a bit of detail about that but it's very interesting that thing
first of all the fact that it is following this person around following ray around after she'd
been released as an out play outpatient I can't speak today it's quite unique and I haven't seen
any other programs like that there are similar programs that deal with teenagers who have mental
breakdowns and various things like that she is a binge eater she does have an eating disorder
as well as as well as many other problems going on there we learn so it is very fascinating and I
just think they hardly handle the delicacy of it really well while still making it another quite
amusing so I'm not gonna go into any more detail about the plot it's about a 16 year old girl who's
been released as an outpatient from a psychiatric unit time to make it in the real world sounds
complex and but when you're watching it it's really quite easy to follow even though there's
a lot going on which is one of the wonderful things about this you have to keep up with the
story because it is written almost as if it's a diary entry she's telling the story herself of
what's happening and it's kind of topped and tale that way as well that's all saying it does kind
of get the balance absolutely perfect with being really quite sensitive and not you're not making a
joke out of this but still making it really quite funny which is often hard to do and I've seen TV
programs deal with similar things and completely fail with it and not get it right at all but my
mad fat diary gets it perfectly because I think it's because Rey is such a likable character and
she just has that personality which is so easy to gel with it's so easy to connect with that
you can understand her and be able to feel the emotions but at the same time you can see that
she's larger-than-life in many ways and it kind of helps a little bit and so I think they've got
the balance right perfectly I will say I actually cried at the end and it's such a wonderful program
because it's so informative as well it kind of almost lifts the veil long there's other ways
to do subject but it does anyway that you can talk about it and you don't feel kind of uncomfortable
doing it because it is entertaining in its approach but it's very informative as well which i
think is great the cast across the board for this first episode is brilliant and three people who
stood up for me the first one ish and Sharon olds who plays ray she is fantastic ring as a character
as I said is really likable and really relatable and the actress is brilliant Dan Cohen plays
Archie who is beautiful basically I love him as a character he's brilliant and I'm looking forward
to seeing what happens there with that character unclear rush Brook plays your base mother as well
and I a dog that could have done since I saw her in Doctor Who like five six years ago so that was
a local thing as well that's another thing that drew me and when I heard that Clara fluke was in
this and that's absolutely wonderful wonderful I acted wonderfully resin it's very creative
it does have a kind of teenage market channel for style to it and I've never well I have seen skins
but that's kind of what made me think of to begin with but I could be very wrong with that um but I
do I think it's absolutely wonderful I I laughed from start to finish and then cried at the end
and I just think of such a beautiful beautiful balance first episode is an hour in length I
imagine episodes that after will be as well which I did kind of think far too long it's not it is
the perfect length I am so happy with this I went watching it thinking I'm not gonna enjoy this it's
gonna be cliche and the same as everything else absolutely not completely enjoying it start to
finish do give it a chance if you are like me thinking no promise you you'll thoroughly enjoy
it cannot wait to the at the next episode let me know your thoughts and see you all next time bye