Sally Wainwright

It's for anybody who likes being told a really cracking story, I think.

However, I have to say, we did get a handful of really...

small-minded comments from some men who had comments like, there are no nice men in it.

And Sally Wainwright doesn't write men nicely or something.

And it's like, hello, there are no nice women in it, actually.

There are complex, interesting women in it.

But the whole point of the show really was about the female experience.

And a big part of the female experience is the way men look at women or the way men treat women.

Mm-hmm.

or the way women feel at this age, that they're either made to feel invisible or they're often the target of disparaging comments.

You know, like what happens to Kitty in episode four.

We had a really interesting storyline meeting where all the women in the room talked about how they'd had

nasty little sexual comments whispered in their ear or shouted at them across the street.

You know, sexualised put-downs that are intended to show power, sexual power.

And we all like to think, oh, it's water off a duck's back, but actually it isn't.

It boils into your brain and spoils your day.

You know, every woman in the room, even me, had experienced that.

That kind of behaviour.

100%.

And then I get criticised because I don't write nice men.