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- Peacock
- May 30, 2024
- Peacock
- May 30, 2024
Summary PhD student Amina Hussain (Anjana Vasan) is convinced to join a Muslim female punk band named Lady Parts as its lead guitarist in the British music comedy created, written and directed by Nida Manzoor. [Premieres in the UK on Channel 4 on 20 May 2021 and in the US on 3 Jun 2021 on Peacock]
Created By: Nida Manzoor
- Peacock
- May 30, 2024
- Peacock
- May 30, 2024
Summary PhD student Amina Hussain (Anjana Vasan) is convinced to join a Muslim female punk band named Lady Parts as its lead guitarist in the British music comedy created, written and directed by Nida Manzoor. [Premieres in the UK on Channel 4 on 20 May 2021 and in the US on 3 Jun 2021 on Peacock]
Created By: Nida Manzoor
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
84
89% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Its first season was terrific too, but for this sophomore effort, creator Nida Manzoor has achieved something so transcendent that the series is bound for membership in television’s hall of fame.
It’s a credit to the whole team that WALP can cover so much ground in three hours without feeling overstuffed. The show hits all the right notes—it’s potent, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny—and, like a good gig, leaves you wanting more.
Manzoor created a unique voice for the show when it premiered in 2021, and it’s a delight to see that it’s just as loud and proud in Season 2, without any hint of the usual sophomore slump.
Series two doesn’t up the ante, but it does takes the show’s tried and tested comedy components and uses them to once again build towards an emotionally satisfying pay-off.
We Are Lady Parts series two is a confident return for Manzoor’s punk pioneers, packed with real substance, swells of emotion, and a irrepressible musical heart.
The challenges of making it are superficially familiar from other music stories: What is selling out? How do you distinguish growth from compromise? Can you make it big without abandoning any of your mates? But the execution and the details are captivatingly specific. What works about “We Are Lady Parts” is what works about great punk. You can still fashion something new out of the same old three chords. You just need a distinctive voice.
It never quite catches light like series one. I think it’s because We Are Lady Parts was always Amina’s story, whereas now everyone gets a solo (and denizens of late-night jazz clubs know what that means). The result is a series that’s about so much – diversity, identity, ageing, friendship – that it’s no longer sure what it’s really about.
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