TV review: Sweetpea made me feel sorry for the bullies

"Sweetpea is in a nondescript English town and it’s honestly like watching Coronation Street with better sets. Worse again, they try to make it feel like a dead-pan comedy."

Ella Purnell stars as Rhiannon in Sweetpea

There comes a point when you give up trying to talk like the kids. My break with Gen Z lingo came with the phrase ‘I feel seen’. 

They’re the words du jour when an artist or work of art appears to be talking to directly to you. They have a taint of self-pity in there too, which is very 2024.