Jessica Knappett

All hail The Female Inbetweeners. There's lots to like here: sharp one-liners, the right level of smut and warm female friendships, centred on getting drunk and mocking each other. Episode one sets it up: chief drifter Meg (Jessica Knappett) returns from India and plans to live at home with her parents (Bob Mortimer and Arabella Weir) until she gets "a cool, arty, media-y job". In the second episode, the girls gatecrash a wake and rename the walk of shame the "stride of pride". Lovely and funny.

If you change your Facebook relationship status to single, then obviously you've split up, haven't you? Not necessarily. When 24-year-old graduate Meg returns from a six-month bungee-jumping jolly - sorry, cultural educational experience - around India, she realises the message didn't get through to her creepy love-struck boyfriend. So as this six-part comedy series, written by and starring Jessica Knappett (The Inbetweeners Movie) opens, Meg's got her work cut out shaking off the ex while flirting her way into a new job.

Drifters: Jessica Knappett on her new show

Knappett is ambivalent about the resemblances. "There are similarities [to The Inbetweeners], in that we're a group of friends in a hinterland period of our lives," she ventures.

Radio Times review

Teenagers and parents who ought to know better will recognise Jessica Knappett as Neil's klutzy love interest in The Inbetweeners Movie. She had a helping hand from Damon Beesley and Iain Morris - the comic brains behind that incorrigible foursome - when writing this. It's basically a female Inbetweeners, except this time our hapless heroines are also old enough to know better: three 20-somethings fresh from university and struggling to find their feet, never mind their rent. This opening double bill doesn't quite deliver. Yes, it's impudently indecorous but these ladies are too two-dimensional. Look out for Bob Mortimer as Knappett's long-suffering father.

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