Alma’s Not Normal is the Bafta-winning dark comedy you need to watch

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Alma’s Not Normal is the BAFTA-winning dark comedy that you need to watch

When asked about her childhood and schooling in the context of a job interview, she cuttingly refers to a somewhat difficult, solitary upbringing, and herself as “Mowgli with a mullet” as she had to fend for herself a lot of the time. She also describes herself as “the baby fromThese punchy descriptions do much to remind us of the shocking realities of poverty in the UK, and how it affects your entire life.

As she goes about trying to get her life together, we get to know the other people near and dear to her, including her mother and her grandmother. Grandma Joan, in particular, brings us the leopard print-trousered look that we want to pull off. Goals. On a more serious note, throughout the series Alma is forced to confront her experiences growing up in care. These threads of plot are taken from Willan’s own life, as she also spent some of her childhood in care and her mother was a heroin addict.

Willan wrote the first draft of the pilot script back in 2014, with the austerity measures of the Cameron government at the time as a template. This time, she told , “felt really negative for welfare recipients, mental health [care] and social services recipients – people like my mother, people who’ve had difficulties.”

 

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