I'll start of by saying I enjoyed binging on Season One of Minx! It's fun, it's well acted, it's relevant, it's realistic in terms of how it portrays the treatment of women at that time in history, it celebrates women's strength, and it should be on the air, but I have some strong criticism. However, as I've only watched the one season, perhaps it's not applicable for the following seasons.
The characters are well cast and have good chemistry. Bambi's got to be my favorite character. The music department has made some really bold and effective choices with the soundtrack, featuring women artists whose work is relevant, timely, high calibre and deserves more recognition. It's a stylish show, which makes it really appealing, and great attention paid to wardrobe and set details. BUT-and this is where it comes to my strong criticism-I wish they'd paid as much attention to the details of the script as with everything else.
The first few episodes were littered with more than a hundred anachronistic phrases and idioms. In later episodes I caught far fewer, so maybe someone alerted the writers to this oversight. So much of the dialogue simply wasn't realistic, and employed concepts or phrases that hadn't yet been coined. For instance, jargon like "do lunch", "face time" "take back the mic", "childhood trauma", "narrative", "power dynamics", "gender equity", (gender equality-yes) "issues of consent', and "pivot back" just wasn't around in the 70s. This is maybe how people speak now, but not 50 years ago! The feminist ideals and concepts were there, but not that exact wording. For instance, you'd never hear anyone in the 70s refer to someone as a celebrity, but more likely a "star" or "famous" or a "celebrated figure". Another example is an allusion to the concept of color "seasons" in women's wardrobe choices. This didn't come out until the book, "Color Me Beautiful" in 1980. Even the nuances of inflection and pronunciation in the dialogue quite often miss the mark. For me, these details drew my attention from the story. I plan to keep watching, however, and I have my fingers crossed for the dialogue.
The characters are well cast and have good chemistry. Bambi's got to be my favorite character. The music department has made some really bold and effective choices with the soundtrack, featuring women artists whose work is relevant, timely, high calibre and deserves more recognition. It's a stylish show, which makes it really appealing, and great attention paid to wardrobe and set details. BUT-and this is where it comes to my strong criticism-I wish they'd paid as much attention to the details of the script as with everything else.
The first few episodes were littered with more than a hundred anachronistic phrases and idioms. In later episodes I caught far fewer, so maybe someone alerted the writers to this oversight. So much of the dialogue simply wasn't realistic, and employed concepts or phrases that hadn't yet been coined. For instance, jargon like "do lunch", "face time" "take back the mic", "childhood trauma", "narrative", "power dynamics", "gender equity", (gender equality-yes) "issues of consent', and "pivot back" just wasn't around in the 70s. This is maybe how people speak now, but not 50 years ago! The feminist ideals and concepts were there, but not that exact wording. For instance, you'd never hear anyone in the 70s refer to someone as a celebrity, but more likely a "star" or "famous" or a "celebrated figure". Another example is an allusion to the concept of color "seasons" in women's wardrobe choices. This didn't come out until the book, "Color Me Beautiful" in 1980. Even the nuances of inflection and pronunciation in the dialogue quite often miss the mark. For me, these details drew my attention from the story. I plan to keep watching, however, and I have my fingers crossed for the dialogue.