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Grazia UK|Issue 699

Based on a Grazia column about life as a directionless 30-something, Sharon Horgan makes a brilliant return to our screens

Paul Flynn
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WAY BACK IN 2009, Sharon Horgan sloped on to discerning screens with her venerated sitcom, Pulling. At the time, the tale of three dystopic flat-sharing friends failing at life, sex and money in London looked a bit like the anti-Sex And The City. Almost a decade later, it feels like a revolution. From Girls to Fleabag, through Horgan’s own Catastrophe and underrated Divorce, women being a bit rubbish have formed a pleasing new spine for meaningful comedy. Men have had failing anti-heroes to look and laugh at, marvelling at our own reflective rubbishness forever. This catch-up had to happen.

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