Rain Dogs, the BBC’s new comedy drama from Skint Estate author Cash Carraway is many things: dark, hilarious, crushing, filthy, engrossing, powerful. But it is not, categorically, poverty porn 🖋️ emilyrbakes
author Cash Carraway is many things: dark, hilarious, crushing, filthy, engrossing, powerful. But it is not, categorically, poverty porn. It would be an easy trap for the series, which follows Costello and Iris from house to house as they try to make each a home, to fall into.
Writer Cash Carraway’s own experience of life on the breadline, and her avoidance of romanticising homelessness, keep the series firmly in reality This is a regular occurrence in Costello’s life: men see her vulnerability as an opportunity to take sexual advantage of her. There is aof uninvited masturbation – and some invited; Costello is a sex worker, and one of her long-term clients and closest confidantes pays her to clean his flat while he touches himself. It may sound strange, but it’s a very sweet relationship. Thatdoesn’t treat Costello’s job as exotic or even sexy, instead just a regular way to make money, is refreshing.
Holding it all together is Cooper, in what is sure to be a career-defining performance. Tough and frustrated, the star oflets us feel sorry for her character but never allows it to tip over into pity. Costello is a woman who can handle herself, and Cooper’s unhesitant skill of switching from comedy to tragedy within the space of a scene is a marvel. One scene halfway through the series, in which Costello breaks down having had all her money stolen, took my breath away.
She’s matched by Jack Farthing as her longtime best friend Selby, a gay posh bloke whose poor mental health, tempestuous relationship with his mother andcomic relief , but he is ultimately a tragic character, and while Costello sees him as a father to Iris, their relationship is demonstrably toxic.There’s also Gloria , another of Costello’s chaotic friends who works in her father’s funeral parlour and has a questionable taste in men and a heart of gold.
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