Chewing Gum: nosebleeds and crises of faith in Michaela Coel's hilarious coming-of-age comedy
Chewing Gum, which was originally a one-woman stage show, follows 24-year-old Tracey Gordon, a Beyoncé-obsessed virgin living in a London council estate with her devout Christian family. When we first meet her she’s trying to convince her strictly religious (and closeted) boyfriend of six years, Ronald (John Macmillan), to finally have sex with her. By the end of that first episode she’s got her eye on someone new: Connor (Robert Lonsdale), an unemployed poet. Repressed and horny, Tracey squirts blood out of her nostrils when she’s aroused. Once she’s got Ronald out of the way, ther...
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