Chewing Gum

We can’t stop watching Michaela Coel. A rising star of British comedy, Coel created her first show Chewing Gum out of a play she put on when she was a student. The series tells the story of Tracey, a woman who has grown up in a religious family and, aged 24, is both extremely naive and incredibly horny. It’s a comic contradiction made in heaven: Tracey has a photo of Jesus hung next to one of Beyoncé, who she prays to as she embarks on her sexual awakening: “I need the strength you had to switch from R&B to hip-hop when they doubted you,” she tells the poster. Amen to that. The show is closely modeled on Coel’s own life (yes, even the episode where she ends up in a sex club).

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