Over the course of the first couple of episodes, the band discovers Amina’s guitar skills and she grows to love playing with them. That’s not to say it’s all perfect. Initially, she has hesitations about the lyrics of one of their songs, Voldemort Under My Headscarf, where she implies it’s a little too inappropriate. But later on in the series, Amina’s frustration with her dating life leads her to pen her own punk-laced song, Bashir With The Good Beard – a nod to Beyoncé’s famous ‘Becky with the good hair’ lyric. This is a new representation of Muslim women on screen, as they’re all people who defy the typically passive portrayal we so often see on TV.

The show is brimming with the punk rock music they create and showcases their experiences with love, culture and wider frustrations. You can’t help but fall in love with their passion for it. The multiple car montages where they can be seen singing along to songs like Toxicity by System Of A Down speak to that very feeling. The music is in large part a reflection of the show’s writer and director Nida Manzoor’s love for it. Although she’s previously directed BBC Three’s TV show, Enterprice (starring Kayode Ewumi and Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge) and two episodes of Doctor Who, this is the first project she’s written and directed that is partially inspired by her own life as a Muslim woman. “[There were] a number of things coalesced at the same time – I was slightly frustrated with the portrayals of Muslim women shrouded in seriousness so I just wanted to smash that apart,” she told The Times. “I grew up in a musical household, my family all play, so I wanted women who could be punks and Muslims. Those are the women I love.” She even wrote the songs they perform in the show with her siblings and her brother taught the show’s cast the songs as they filmed, which is, by all accounts, truly punk rock.

We Are Lady Parts review: the hilarious, joy-infused comedy bringing punk rock to the forefront